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0.1 Getting started

0.2 About A Turtle Tale

0.3 Installing Python and Other Tools

1.1 First Words and turtle

1.2 Finding Out What A Turtle Can Do

1.3 Different Types of Objects in a Python Program

1.4 Introducing Fred and Mary

1.5 Fred and Mary Go On and On • while Loop

1.6 Where's Fred? • Using print()

1.7 Asking The Program To Make a Decision • if statements

1.8 Different Types of Objects (Again) • Data Types

1.9 Equals Equals Is Not The Same As Equals

1.10 Stopping Fred and Mary • Stopping The while Loop

1.11 Stopping When Mary Reaches The End Too

1.12 Your First Bug

1.13 Squashing Your First Bug

1.14 Reviewing Fred and Mary

1.15 Extra: Other ways of stopping the while loop

1.16 Extra: Changing The Font in fred.write()

1.17 Exercises

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2.1 The Tale So Far

2.2 The Starry Night

2.3 Creating One Star

2.4 Creating Many Stars • The for Loop

2.5 More Objects • The Screen

2.6 Controlling When Things Are Displayed On The Screen

2.7 Finishing The Starry Night

2.8 Meet Monty (Introduction to the central analogy in A Turtle Tale)

2.9 Monty And Modules

2.10 When You Have A List Of Things To Store • Python's Lists

2.11 Many Angry Turtles Screensaver • Getting Started

2.12 Many Angry Turtles Screensaver • Setting Up Many Turtles

2.13 Many Angry Turtles Screensaver • Looping Through A List

2.14 Many Angry Turtles Screensaver • Finishing Touches

2.15 More On Lists • Indexing and Slicing

2.16 More On Lists • List Methods

2.17 Exercises

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E2.1 The Bouncing Tennis Ball

E2.2 Another Way of Moving A Turtle

E2.3 Dropping The Ball And Gravity

E2.4 Bouncing Off The Ground

E2.5 Losing A Bit Of Energy Each Time The Ball Bounces

E2.6 Fixing The Disappearing Ball Bug

E2.7 A Side Note: f-strings

E2.8 Tossing The Ball Sideways (And Some Refactoring)

E2.9 Dealing With The Walls

E2.10 From One Ball To Many Balls

E2.11 [Advanced Topic] Giving Each Ball Its Own Velocity

3.1 Introducing Functions and The Bubble Chase Game

3.2 You've Used Many Functions Already

3.3 Let's Start

3.4 Planning the Game and Moving The Player Forward

3.5 Defining A Function

3.6 Binding A Function To A Key On The Keyboard

3.7 Parentheses

3.8 Teleporting The Player

3.9 Teleporting The Player Using A Function

3.10 Running The Program in Slow Motion

3.11 Creating A Bubble

3.12 Bursting The Bubbles

3.13 Adding A Timer

3.14 Stopping The Game

3.15 Controlling When The Game Starts

3.16 Running The Game Three Times In A Row

3.17 Local Variables In Functions

3.18 Finishing The Game, Finally!

3.19 Exercises

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E3.1 Let's Discuss The Updates To The Game

E3.2 Many Bubbles

E3.3 Many Moving Bubbles