🔒 While-loops and For-loop.

[vagrant thicket]

Trying to complete my assignments, but for the life of me can't understand while and for-loops.
#1 The first assignment consists of making a 8x8 checkerboard, using only one call to rect (). Using loops.
How can I nest my loops to so I make this?

I'm sure it's easy, but i've just been staring at my screen and getting confused and tired.

I have another assignment, but help with this one will improve my understanding hopefully for the other.

[daring hill]

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[polar geode]

what is the rect function and what arguments does it use?

[vagrant thicket]

rect () is rectangle function, or in this case it has to be a square. The arguments are (x, y, width, length)

width = length.............since it's gotta be a quare

im doing 25x25

and canvas size of 200x200, if that matters. it's mostly just how do i nest the loops

[weak wind]

Here this code uses nested loops to draw an 8x8 checkerboard by calculating each square's position and color based on its row

square_size = 50

for row in range(8):

    for col in range(8):

        x = col * square_size
        y = row * square_size

        if (row + col) % 2 == 0:
            color = 'black'
        else:
            color = 'white'

        rect(x, y, square_size, square_size, color)```

I'm not entirely sure if this code is correct but I want to find out.

[vagrant thicket]

😭 where teh while and for loops at

oh nvm

[weak wind]

huh?

Their inside

[undone merlin]

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[daring hill]

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[weak wind]

What?

[vagrant thicket]

I just copy pasted it doesn't work.

[weak wind]

I don’t even use chatgpt 💀

Lil bro stop assuming

[weak wind]

Dang

[polar geode]

please don't spoon feed people

our goal is to help people learn not give them the answers

[vagrant thicket]

let me show what I have

[weak wind]

Didn’t ask but ok

[polar geode]

it doesn't matter if you asked, i'm telling

[vagrant thicket]

this will be incorrect as I have used call rect() more than once, more than twice even.

[weak wind]

idc

[polar geode]

you will, or we will be handing out infractions if this behaviuor of being rude and unhelpful continues. that's not the kind of culture we're trying to foster here

[polar geode]

and what output does this produce?

[weak wind]

not reading all that 🤓

[vagrant thicket]

a BnW checkerboard

but I'm supposed to only use 1-2 call of rect ().

[polar geode]

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[daring hill]

:incoming_envelope: :ok_hand: applied timeout to @weak wind until <t:1722385716:f> (1 hour).

[polar geode]

anyway

[vagrant thicket]

maybe my take is wrong, idk.

[polar geode]

it looks like youare making 4, 4x4 chunks?

if im not mistaken?

[vagrant thicket]

noo

[polar geode]

well it seems you're on the right track at least

[vagrant thicket]

the range is of the x and y coordinates

[polar geode]

but instead of going 0, 50, 100, 150, 200 i think you want to instead of 0, 25, 50, ... 200

this way you can do it with one call to rect and two loops

[vagrant thicket]

huh

😭 I'm sorry my brain is kinda exhausted

[polar geode]

its the same thing you have right now but instead of skipping by 50 you skip by 25

range(..., ..., 25)

[vagrant thicket]

yeah

if I do that for both black n white they wont alternate

or will they, ill try ig

[polar geode]

for alternating you would keep track of some number, and add one each time

if its even, color it white, if its odd, color it black

or the other way around, doesn't really matter

[vagrant thicket]

ohhh i see...

[polar geode]

there is another, more complex (but pythonic) way to do it i can show you if you're interested but its not necessary

[vagrant thicket]

naahh, this is just for uni assignment.

gotta keep it to what the teach has asked

[polar geode]

fair enough

[daring hill]

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