A Turtle Tale • Learn Python in a Visual Way

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: The Story of Fred and Mary • Programming Basics

Lecture 1: Welcome to the coding • What's different in this course?

Lecture 2: About a Turtle Tale

Lecture 3: Installing Python and Other Tools

Lecture 4: First Words and `turtle`

Lecture 5: Finding Out What A Turtle Can Do

Lecture 6: Different Types of Objects in a Python Program

Lecture 7: Introducing Fred and Mary

Lecture 8: Fred and Mary Go On and On • `while` Loop

Lecture 9: Where's Fred? • Using `print()`

Lecture 10: Asking The Program To Make a Decision • `if` statements

Lecture 11: Different Types of Objects (Again) • Data Types

Lecture 12: Equals Equals Is Not The Same As Equals

Lecture 13: Stopping Fred and Mary • Stopping The `while` Loop

Lecture 14: Stopping When Mary Reaches The End Too

Lecture 15: Your First Bug

Lecture 16: Squashing Your First Bug

Lecture 17: Reviewing Fred and Mary

Lecture 18: Extra: Other ways of stopping the `while` loop

Lecture 19: Extra: Changing The Font in `fred.write()`

Lecture 20: Exercises

Chapter 2: Animating Python • Lists and More Loops

Lecture 1: The Tale So Far

Lecture 2: The Starry Night

Lecture 3: Creating One Star

Lecture 4: Creating Many Stars • The `for` Loop

Lecture 5: More Objects • The Screen

Lecture 6: Controlling When Things Are Displayed On The Screen

Lecture 7: Finishing The Starry Night

Lecture 8: Meet Monty (Introduction to the central analogy in A Turtle Tale)

Lecture 9: Monty And Modules

Lecture 10: When You Have A List Of Things To Store • Python's Lists

Lecture 11: Many Angry Turtles Screensaver • Getting Started

Lecture 12: Many Angry Turtles Screensaver • Setting Up Many Turtles

Lecture 13: Many Angry Turtles Screensaver • Looping Through A List

Lecture 14: Many Angry Turtles Screensaver • Finishing Touches

Lecture 15: More On Lists • Indexing and Slicing

Lecture 16: More On Lists • List Methods

Lecture 17: Exercises

Chapter 3: Bouncing Ball and Bouncing Balls

Lecture 1: The Bouncing Tennis Ball

Lecture 2: Another Way of Moving A Turtle

Lecture 3: Dropping The Ball And Gravity

Lecture 4: Bouncing Off The Ground

Lecture 5: Losing A Bit Of Energy Each Time The Ball Bounces

Lecture 6: Fixing The Disappearing Ball Bug

Lecture 7: A Side Note: f-strings

Lecture 8: Tossing The Ball Sideways (And Some Refactoring)

Lecture 9: Dealing With The Walls

Lecture 10: From One Ball To Many Balls

Lecture 11: [Advanced Topic] Giving Each Ball Its Own Velocity

Chapter 4: The Bubble Chase Game • Defining Functions

Lecture 1: Introducing Functions and The Bubble Chase Game

Lecture 2: You've Used Many Functions Already

Lecture 3: Let's Start

Lecture 4: Planning the Game and Moving The Player Forward

Lecture 5: Defining A Function

Lecture 6: Binding A Function To A Key On The Keyboard

Lecture 7: Parentheses

Lecture 8: Teleporting The Player

Lecture 9: Teleporting The Player Using A Function

Lecture 10: Running The Program in Slow Motion

Lecture 11: Creating A Bubble

Lecture 12: Bursting The Bubbles

Lecture 13: Adding A Timer

Lecture 14: Stopping The Game

Lecture 15: Controlling When The Game Starts

Lecture 16: Running The Game Three Times In A Row

Lecture 17: Local Variables In Functions

Lecture 18: Finishing The Game, Finally!

Lecture 19: Exercises

Chapter 5: Extra Section: Many Moving Bubbles in The Bubble Chase Game

Lecture 1: Let's Discuss The Updates To The Game

Lecture 2: Many Bubbles

Lecture 3: Many Moving Bubbles

Chapter 6: The Marching Turtles • More Data Structures • Dictionaries

Lecture 1: A Quick Introduction To This Chapter

Lecture 2: Some Data Type Categories • Iterables and Sequences

Lecture 3: Some Data Type Categories • Mutable and Immutable

Lecture 4: Some Other Data Structures • Tuples

Lecture 5: Some Other Data Structures • Dictionaries

Lecture 6: The Red, Green, And Blue Turtle Groups

Lecture 7: Performing An Action When The User Clicks On The Screen

Lecture 8: Clicking On A Turtle

Lecture 9: Grouping The Groups

Lecture 10: Selecting Groups of Turtles

Lecture 11: Disabling The Clicks

Lecture 12: Moving The Red Group of Turtles

Lecture 13: Concluding The Animation

Lecture 14: This Tale Ends Here, But There Are Many More To Come

Lecture 15: Extra lesson: One Very Last Update To The Marching Turtles Animation