Draw a star

Challenge Level: Growing experience

Learning outcomes

Students will be able to:

Describe how variables store values and how they are used in your program.
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Explain how sequence works in programming.
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Identify how and when to use a loop to repeat a set of instructions.
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Requirement:

Write a program that draws a 6-pointed star (hexagram).

There are no testing examples for this challenge.

Scratch

Click on the green flag to see the expected output of your program.

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Hints

There will be a few ways to do this. Below are hints for three different ways you can program this.

Solution 1: By drawing a hexagon inside a star (see challenge 7.2).
Solution 2: By drawing 6 triangles;
1. draw a triangle,
2. move back to the last vertex drawn,
3. turn 60 degrees (as if you are drawing a hexagon)
4. repeat steps 1-3 6 times).
Solution 3: By drawing 2 triangles.