turtle lesson

Asked by leynab over 1 year ago

I am working on the turtle draw lesson. I can make boxes and stars. How can I make it start in a new location?

1 response

enrique says
Howdy leynab, hope you are enjoying ruby and the Turtle.

I don't think the lesson mentions it, but you can also use a couple of commands called penup and pendown to allow moving without drawing.

For example, this will take the pen off the 'paper', move 150, then put the pen back down and continue.
```
Turtle.start do
  penup
  forward 150
  pendown
  pencolor maroon
  4.times do
    forward 50
    turnright 90
  end
end
```
Note: if you penup then you must use pendown again to continue drawing (to see what happens, remove the pendown and run it)

Cheers