September 2020 – Quest Academy Sixth Grade

My Turtle Art Project

Turtle Art is a coding platform that could help you code many things that you allow it to do. I recently coded a mesmerizing square spiral which could be found here. At first, it looked really hard, but because it looked hard that motivated me to do take the challenge. I started coding by doing trial and error but after a while, I ran into a problem. The problem was that when clicked play to see what it looked like the spacing was all off and the code and my code were a mess. My forwards were all messed up and it just looked really bad. So I changed all of my forward blocks to increase by fives because I do not want to change the angle that it is going at. After my forwards were all changed I clicked on the play button to see if it worked. Once it finished drawing it out the spacing was not big enough. So I changed all of my forwards to increase by tens and that was when I figured out the pattern. After I tackled that problem I found another problem my code was not exactly repeating, and I did not want to use the repeat command because then it would just loop. Now I did not know what to do because I found the pattern and my code was getting too long even though I was using the action block which made it a little neater. Even so, I would have a lot of them when it was not necessary. I asked my teacher for help and I found that I had to use a block that I have never used which was the “Name Store in Value” which could be found in the Boxes section. After I fixed that problem I saw the finish I was satisfied with myself. But then I remembered when I asked my teacher for help he sent me a code that was completely different but the drawing look mesmerizing. I took a look at the code and decided to do it because the color increased and my code only had one boring color. I went ahead and took a look at that code he sent me and added the blocks into my code. Then I played it and then I was not completely satisfied with it. So I kept decreasing the colors when it repeats and I was finally satisfied with it being at 0.3. But then when I was getting ready to make this I wanted you to see all of the colors to I increased it to 0.5 for you to see the purple too. Even though it is more satisfying when it is set to 0.3.