One of the most underrated #Python modules?

turtle

We know it’s used for teaching & not in the “real-world”

But it’s usually used only for basic drawings & simple animations for kids–a very limited scope

We can teach more advanced topics, too…

Here are some examples…

1. Data structures: lists, tuples, dictionaries, and sets

Here’s an animation that uses all four of these structures:

Practise Using Lists, Tuples, Dictionaries, and Sets in Python With the Chaotic Balls Animation

2. Named Tuples

And a bit further down the line, here’s an example of a turtle animation of a sunrise that introduces Named Tuples:

Sunrise: A Python Turtle Animation using Named Tuples

3. Demonstrating real-world processes

Maybe we want to use it model real-world processes in a quick-and-simple way.

Here is a demonstration of “simulating” bouncing balls

There’s the single ball version:
The Real World in Python: Coding A Bouncing Ball

and the many balls one which deals with object-oriented programming:
_Bouncing Balls Using Object-Oriented Programming in Python

And, one of my favourites, a simulations of planets orbiting one or more stars. The turtle version is in 2D:
Simulating Orbiting Planets in a Solar System Using Python

There’s also a 3D version which uses Matplotlib instead of turtle, but that’s off-topic here so I’ll post another time

Here are some more ideas from projects I’ve written up recently

https://thepythoncodingbook.com/category/turtle/

I have loads and loads more which I’ll try to write up and publish in the coming months

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