Preliminary

  • Due Date: Thursday, October 26 by 9:50 PM
  • You must complete this assignment individually.

Bird Flag - 100 points

Thanks to your brilliant computer skills and passion for birds, your supervisor at Cornell asked you to help with a special conservation partnership project involving the countries of Uganda and Papua New Guinea. Uganda and Papua New Guinea, two countries with rich biodiversity, are partnering to study each other’s bird populations and share their practices for preserving biodiversity.

Your boss has asked you to help create a flag to stand as a symbol of the joint partnership project. Both countries are deeply proud of their flags because they represent their respective country’s bird life: the Ugandan flag features the endangered Gray Crowned Crane, and the Papua New Guinea flag has a silhouette of the Raggiana Bird-of-Paradise, the country’s national bird.

The flag you create must include the stripes of the Ugandan flag and the stars of Papua New Guinean flag. Because the project is focusing on 13 specific species of birds and mammals in both countries, the flag should have a circle of 13 stars in its center.

A colleague has given you a draft of the new flag and even some Python code in a file called flag.py. Your job is to add the two missing functions so that the program draws this Conservation Partnership Flag.

N.B.: Before getting too far in the project, be sure to rename flag.py according to the instructions below.

Requirements and Grading

Note: To earn points, you must not modify the provided code at all. Just supply the two missing functions!

  • 10 points - The draw_star function has the correct parameters.
  • 5 points - The draw_star function uses an appropriate for loop.
  • 5 points - The draw_star function is commented properly.
  • 5 points - The draw_star solution is easy to understand.
  • 10 points - The draw_rectangle function has the correct parameters.
  • 5 points - The draw_rectangle function uses an appropriate for loop.
  • 5 points - The draw_rectangle function is commented properly.
  • 5 points - The draw_rectangle solution is easy to understand.
  • 50 points - Your flag replicates the provided drawing. (For each type of difference, 10 points will be deducted.)

Helpful Hint

Hint: Read the comments in flag.py and understand the code that already exists before you begin coding.

Submission

Place the solution in a file named flag_firstname.py and submit it in the Portal no later than 12:45 PM on Thursday, October 26.