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TurtleSC provides a mini-language of shortcut instructions to carry out turtle.py function calls, like 'f 100' instead of forward(100). These two examples do the same thing:
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This article and its content were written, reviewed, and verified by a human, Al Sweigart. In my research I found that most "GitHub vs GitLab" articles are AI slop containing false or outdated information. I wrote this article with links to actual documentation pages, and not just copying what every other article on this topic says. For those who have heard of this "Git stuff," here's a summary of the differences and details. My hot take: For the needs of most individual or small group users, they're basically the same. GitLab seems to be more oriented towards self-hosting and custom configuration. Wikipedia has an extensive comparison list of source code repo hosting servers.
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At PyCon 2025, I handed out a pocket-sized zine that lets you play a procedurally generated choose-your-own-adventure version of tic-tac-toe. The zine itself is available as a PDF for viewing on your computer and a PDF for double-sided printing. Here's how I made it using Python.
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Part 5 of a tutorial series on the Fabric.js canvas/graphics library for JavaScript, we'll learn how to change the size of shapes by scaling them with the scale() method. We'll also get some more practice drawing in general. We'll draw this forest:
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Part 5 of a tutorial series on the Fabric.js canvas/graphics library for JavaScript, where we learn about grouping, cloning, and rotating shapes.
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Part 4 of a tutorial series on the Fabric.js canvas/graphics library for JavaScript, where we learn about drawing with paths.round color of a canvas as well as the shapes fabric.Polygon and fabric.Line.
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Part 3 of a tutorial series on the Fabric.js canvas/graphics library for JavaScript, where we learn how to set the background color of a canvas as well as the shapes fabric.Polygon and fabric.Line.
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This is Part 2 of the Fabric.js tutorial canvas/graphics library for JavaScript, where we learn about Polyline shapes and styling shapes by drawing a gingerbread figure.
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This is part 1 my tutorial series on the Fabric.js canvas/graphics library for JavaScript, where we learn about drawing basic shapes like rectangles, circles, and triangles to draw pine trees.
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Tweening functions allow you to easily add many different styles of natural-seeming movement to the graphics in your program. In this blog post, you'll learn about how tweening functions can make more lively movement animations using Pygame and the PyTweening third-party library. Tweening functions apply to any programming language, but this tutorial has actual Python code for you to run and experiment with. Start by installing these libraries by running pip install pygame and pip install pytweening from the terminal. Then follow along with the code examples.