{"id":180,"date":"2026-05-29T13:58:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/?p=180"},"modified":"2026-05-29T13:58:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:58:35","slug":"free-friday-5-29-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/2026\/05\/29\/free-friday-5-29-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Friday 5-29-26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today in class, I finished my spacewar game. I added a background image, and explosions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"691\" height=\"699\" src=\"https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-182\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.9885760257441674;width:474px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-6.png 691w, https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-6-297x300.png 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the code for the background image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>turtle.bgpic(\"starfield.gif\")<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the code that makes the player smaller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>self.shapesize(stretch_wid=0.6, stretch_len=1.1, outline=None)<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the code for the explosion particles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>class Particle(Sprite):\n\tdef __init__(self, spriteshape, color, startx, starty):\n\t\tSprite.__init__(self, spriteshape, color, startx, starty)\n\t\tself.shapesize(stretch_wid=0.1, stretch_len=0.1, outline=None)\n\t\tself.goto(-1000,-1000)\n\t\tself.frame = 0\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\tdef\texplode(self, startx, starty):\n\t\tself.goto(startx,starty)\n\t\tself.setheading(random.randint(0,360))\n\t\tself.frame = 1\n\n\tdef move(self):\n\t\tif self.frame > 0:\n\t\t\tself.fd(10)\t\n\t\t\tself.frame += 1\n\n\t\tif self.frame > 15:\n\t\t\tself.frame = 0\n\t\t\tself.goto(-1000, -1000)\t<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the code for the particles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>particles = &#91;]\t\nfor i in range(20):\n\tparticles.append(Particle(\"circle\", \"orange\", 0, 0))<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the code that does the explosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>for particle in particles:\n    particle.explode(missile.xcor(), missile.ycor())\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in class, I finished my spacewar game. I added a background image, and explosions. This is the code for the background image. This is the code that makes the player smaller. This is the code for the explosion particles. This is the code for the particles. This is the code that does the explosion.<\/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-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","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=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theroyalscode.com\/students\/d_harkless\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}