I think it went well, and the goal was decomposed into understandable
chunks. The programmer in me couldn't help but be annoyed with the
redundancies in this implementation; we can avoid redoing the same
calculation, which is how I designed my outline. I know that for most
students this is probably something easily overlooked, but if I were to
teach this lab, I would actually have students use their plan to
implement the plot. You could guide them in the right direction by
saying "break it down into at least n functions" and maybe even go over
this outline as an example but still encourage students to write follow
their own steps.
Making a pie chart would also be a fun project for the turtle library.
I think it would also be conceptually easier for younger students
because you're working with categorical data; make a list the student's
favorite ice-cream flavors and use that data to make a pie chart
It went well. At first it wasn't clear what the scale function was
supposed to do because it also translates the data so it's really more
of a change of coordinates.
