Lesson 1

Importing code into Python

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Alright, now that we’ve made sure everything is set up correctly, let’s start some coding!

Type the code into your Project1.py file as shown below.

On line 1 we have some green text, beginning with a “#“.

Lines of code that start with “#” are comments. These are ignored by the computer and are meant to make notes for the programmer to remember what he/she wrote.

Comments are used as notes for both yourself and other programmers to help remember/understand how code works. They are probably of the most useful programming tools, and one of the easiest!

On line 2 we have a keyword called import (keywords are important built-in words of a programming language, they usually have colors to help them stand out.).

“turtle” is a library, pre-existing code that we can pull and use in our own programs so that we do not have to write everything from scratch.

Since our program now knows what a turtle is, we will be able to control it with our code