Preliminary

  • Due Date: Thursday, November 2 by 12:45 PM
  • You must complete this assignment individually.

Tanager Tile - 100 points

After producing business cards for the previous assignments, your boss asks to you help create some new bird identification tools for the New World tanagers, a complex and multi-colored family of birds living mostly in Central and South America. Your boss wants to create a tile-sheet of tanager heads like the one the Cornell Lab created for warblers.

Use Python Turtle Graphics to design and draw a tanger ID tile. Your first task is to select one species of tanager to highlight in your tile. You can use the Cornell Lab’s eBird website to search for a tanager species that stands out to you. Your tile can depict either just the tanager’s head or show the entire bird, but the general shape and colors must match the actual species you select.

Requirements and Grading

  • 20 points - The tile is centered both horizontally (10 points) and vertically (10 points) in the drawing area.
  • 20 points - The tile is 400 pixels wide (10 points) and 400 pixels tall (10 points).
  • 20 points - The tile contains at least two different colors (10 points each).
  • 10 points - An appropriate comment appears at the top of the Python solution. Be sure to include the species name of your tanager. (See Project 2 for the comment box format and info).
  • 10 points - The Python solution is easy to understand and does not contain unnecessary code.
  • 20 points - Creativity points. Do something creative in addition to the requirements above. For example, enhance the tile by adding some habitat, add the other gender of the tanager, etc.

Helpful Hint

Take a look at the turtle method summary to remind yourself what is possible.

Examples of Student Work

Submission

Place the solution in a file named tanager_firstname.py and submit it in the Portal no later than 12:45 PM on Thursday, November 2.