Drawing Heart using Python
A simple tutorial for beginners to understand some basic programming concepts.
Hello everyone,
This article will be about the basics of "Python Turtle." I want to share the simple steps to draw a heart using the python turtle and understand the basics about Python classes and Python methods using this example.
As the first step of this process, we have to import the Turtle from Python, and then let's create an instance of it.
By this step, we import a predefined turtle module and create an instance of the class in the name of "alex." So, alex is an instance of turtle class with all the properties of class turtle.
Now, as the next step, we shall define two functions, we will use one to draw the straight lines, and the other function will draw the curved part of the Heart.
I thought of defining these as functions rather than hard coding to reduce the length of the code, and then this will help us reuse the lines as much as we want without repeating the same code lines.
In this step, we shall initialize the coloring part.
By this process, we call some predefined methods of the turtle class to color the Heart without defining the process manually. And also, pass a parameter "red" to the fill color method to describe the color of our shape.
All set, let's start drawing.
In this part, you can see that I have called the class turtle methods by adding the "dot(.)" operator to the name alex, which is an instance of that class. At the same time, I have called the driving methods directly since I have defined them freely without any classes in this same code file.
And then we have some finishing touches,
This part is needed to call the "end_fill()" method to stop coloring the shape and the "exitonclick()" function to hold the output until the next click.
Let's have a look at the final output.
This is how the final output will be. We may look at the entire, complete code at a glance to get a firm understanding.
I hope this article gave a clear understanding of the entire process and a basic understanding of some basic programming concepts. When you practice more of this, you might understand more clearly. Thank you ❤️.
