Module 6 - Section 1 - Loops and Animation: 6.1.3

Module 6 - Section 1 - Loops and Animation

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After the completion of this module the students will be able to:

create a random animation of shapes
rewrite the code using the for loop
use nested loops for continuous animation
predict and correct the code so the objects reappear in random positions

6.1.3 - Two scripts in one IDE

Without closing the scipt that creates the 50 pairs of coordinates (snowList) open the script that you wrote to create one random snowflake.

If you haven't managed to draw one random snowflake you can download the script from here. Open it in Thonny and save it as snow_flakes_1 in your project's folder.

In Thonny IDE we can have more than one scripts open (but only one running everytime). If one script is running we have to interrupt it to switch to the other.

Try to run the first script, then close it and run the second. When the graphics script is running the play button is fainted and Thonny cannot run other scripts. Remember that in pygame template there is a main loop that is always running unless we click the QUIT button. This is not the case with snowList script because it automatically terminates, after creating the list.