How to draw a square
In this topic, you will learn how to draw a square using turtle graphics.
Follow the instructions below to draw a square.
INSTRUCTIONS:
- In the IDE to the right, you can see the lines that have ‘forward‘ and the lines that have ‘left‘?
- In the brackets next to the forward put the number 100 in-between i.e. turtle.forward(100)
- In the brackets next to the left write the number 90 in-between i.e. turtle.left(90)
- Click the Run button
That is one way of drawing a square.
The line turtle.forward draws a line the length of whatever number is in its brackets. Meanwhile, the turtle.left turns the arrow whatever number of degrees that is in-between its brackets
For our square the length is 100 and the angles are 90 degrees.
CHALLENGE:
Try and draw a rectangle. What would the length be? Would the angles still be the same? Edit the code above and click RUN to see if you get it right.