Create 6 hexagons in a row on the scratch program then do the same with triangles and stars

Question

Hi I am using the scratch program and I figured out how to make six squares in a row not connected but now I need to figure out how to make another shape with the same code, triangles and stars. Please help me. Thank you.

 

 

Answer 1

Each Object (a hexagon, a star, a square, etc.) starts at the current point.  After moving to a new starting point, a new object is created by a call to the method that plots it (note: parameters for the number of sides and the length of a side  all that is required).

 

Any regular n-sided polygon has an interesting fact:  the sum of the external angles = 360 degrees

 

In the 1960's, Seymour Papert (MIT) created "Tuttle Graphics" to teach geometry to kids.  The robot turtle could draw a line, turn left a calculated amount, move forward, turn left again,  ... and when it got back to the starting point and turned left, it had turned a full 360 degrees left!

 

So, for a triangle, turn left 120 degrees (outside 3 angles are 120 degrees, so inside angle is 60 degrees); for a square, turn left 90 degrees; for a hexagon, turn left 60 degrees  (this is 360/N).  Now, how would you make a star??

 

In Scratch, you pass the angle and side length as parameters to the once-written code to draw a shape.  It takes it from there.  Also, you don't have to turn left a fixed angle, and you don't have to have the same length side -- wonderful spiral shapes appear.