This exercise helped me finally understand functions and how to use them. While I’m still not an expert in functions, I at least understand the basics better now.

Here is my lightbulb moment with functions:

def instructions():
  time.sleep(2)
  tina.clear()

Since I have a lot of text in the setup screen, I know I would have to use the sleep() and clear() codes a lot so I made a helper function for it so I wouldn’t have to keep rewriting the same code and to save time.

One of the frustrating parts of this exercise was trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my turtle. At first, I was going to hide the turtle and let users find it but I was having difficulty figuring out how to set up the code to help users find the hidden turtle so I gave up.

Initially, I was having trouble with creating helper function codes, but once I figured out I was having fun making a few.

Here’s a few that I have made for this turtle:

This code allows users to drag Tina on the screen and to doodle.

def clicky(x, y):
  tina.ondrag(None)
  tina.goto(x,y)
  tina.ondrag(clicky)

def tina_stamp():
  tina.stamp()

def clear_screen():
    tina.clear()

myscreen.onkey(tina_stamp, 's')
myscreen.onkey(clear_screen, 'c')
myscreen.listen()

I was trying to make a code where the keys can move the turtle to where users want without it drawing on the screen but I couldn’t figure out how to do it, but maybe one day.

Then, I started playing around with the code on the Clicky Turtlehack materials page, I decided wanted to make a drawing turtle instead. Here is my code for this exercise: