{"id":165,"date":"2026-05-01T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/?p=165"},"modified":"2026-05-01T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:03:00","slug":"free-friday-5-1-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/2026\/05\/01\/free-friday-5-1-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Friday 5\/1\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today in class, I started a space war game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the code that sets the animations speed to the maximum, changes the background color, hides the default turtle, saves memory, and speeds up drawing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>turtle.fd(0)\nturtle.speed(0)\nturtle.bgcolor(\"black\")\nturtle.ht()\nturtle.setundobuffer(1)\nturtle.tracer(1)\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the code that moves the player<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>def move(self):\n        self.fd(self.speed) <\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the code that gets the player that to move up, down, left, and right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>def turn_left(self):\n        self.lt(45)     \n\n    def turn_right(self):\n        self.lt(45)\n\n    def accelerate(self):\n        self.speed += 1 \n\n    def decelerate(self):\n        self.speed -= 1                  <\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the code for the player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>    player = Player(\"triangle\", \"white\", 0, 0)\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"915\" height=\"760\" src=\"https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-166\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.2039504624549302;width:385px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image.png 915w, https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-300x249.png 300w, https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-768x638.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the code for the keys that gets the player to move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>turtle.onkey(player.turn_left, \"Left\")\nturtle.onkey(player.turn_right, \"Right\")\nturtle.onkey(player.accelerate, \"Up\")\nturtle.onkey(player.decelerate, \"Down\")<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in class, I started a space war game. This is the code that sets the animations speed to the maximum, changes the background color, hides the default turtle, saves memory, and speeds up drawing. This is the code that moves the player This is the code that gets the player that to move up, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}