Python Turtle Graphics Tutorial for Absolute Beginners - Drawing a Spirographic

Learn programming in Turtle, a Python Library, in this 2 minute tutorial for beginners. Playing around with the Turtle library is a great way to practise the basics susch as variables, lists, looping, functions and more.

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Drawing with Turtle - Spirographic
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In this tutorial we will code this piece of art in turtle, which is a python library.
To use the turtle library start with ‘import turtle’ 
For the background color we can use the turtle function
Set the background color to black
 
Next we need to create the object turtle and store it in the variable ’t'.
 
The colours red and dark red are used. We can define them here in a list
 
Now as you saw in the animation. the code draws a line and then takes a turn
And then draws a line again.
Each line is drawn longer than the line before.
 
We can use a for loop here and loop about 400 times with the range function
 
With the forward function we draw a straight line.
The length of the line is defined by the value stored in the variable number
Since we are looping in the range from 0 to 400, we can re-use the variable for the length of the line
 
Next we need to define the angle. 
 
If we enter 90 here, this loop would create a square.
 
We don’t want to it to be a perfect corner, but slightly off so it creates the spiral effect
Finally spiral alternates between red and dark red
 
In one iteration of the loop we want to use red, the next iteration dark red and keep alternating like that in each iteration.
 
We defined a list with the colors
Red has an index number of 0 and dark red has an index number of 1
So one iteration we need to pass the index number 0 and the next 1
 
We can do that by use the operator modulo, which is the percentage sign
 
This operator returns the remainder of a division problem
 
To show you how this works, lets visualise what the operator does
 
If we want to divide 5 by 2 with the modulo, what python does is, it makes in this case groups of 2.
If it is no longer able to make a group of 2, it returns the remainder. In this case one

Here’s an example of 4 divided by 2 with the out come 0

And here’s an example of 1 divided by 2
 
the modulo groups the input figure by 2 and if it cannot make a group of 2 anymore, then it returns the remainder
 
That’s how we can switch back and forth between red and dark red
 
And that’s it.

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[imrozsazid]

import turtle
turtle.bgcolor('black')
t = turtle.Turtle()
colors = ['red', 'dark red']
turtle.speed(900)
for numbers in range(400):
t.forward(numbers + 1)
t.right(89)
t.pencolor(colors[numbers % 2])
turtle.done()

[DilettanteProjects]

This is exactly what I needed as a primer to "get" what turtle does

[ragem]

Thanks man was a bit confused at first, as to why it wasn't working? Then I realised I made typos, corrected them and it worked like a charm cheers!

[KieranLeCam]

This is cool thank you! enjoying playing around with the for loop :)

[Bobitsaneva]

Thank you! I learnt it from the first time

[asy]

nah bruh, the explanations are clear as glass... thank you

[giulesteannr]

I did the same today before seeing this tutorial. So im not that trash at python😂

[Native]

I got an error of TypeError: can't multiply sequence by non-int of type 'method'

[addy]

I remember making a DOS turtle in Grade 1 Primary school

[mahamamjad]

AoA im a mathematics student and i have great interest in geometry as well . Can you recommend me a book or youtube channel which can help me understand shapes or object using computer language it can be any language. I want to connect Mathematics (geometry) with computer

[plamenstefanov_]

I got this type of error: import tkinter as TK
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tkinter
What a need to do

[PlayStoreUser-iwsg]

when i opening my .py code, my .py file closes with no reason, exit code: 0(i think lol)

[kzipfvi]

import turtle
turtle.bgcolor('red', 'dark red')
t = turtle.Turtle()
colors = ['red', 'dark red']
for number in range(400):
t.forward(number+1)
t.right(89)
t.pencolor(colors[number%2])
turtle.done()

[saisrikant]

bro i want this code can u send the code

[Timileyin-Awe]

Don't save the python file name as "turtle" 😂