Step 8 – Turtle mega-challenge
OK, let's draw some serious flags.
You'll need the full set of Python turtle colours (opens in a new tab).
Challenge 2.5 – United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates (UAE for short) has a flag that you should be able to draw fairly easily.
It's a three stripe flag with a bar on the left.
Look back at the other flags you've drawn and you should be able to figure this one out.
The UAE is a country made up of a number of Emirates. It's in the same part of the world as Iran and Qatar; Dubai is the biggest city. Try not to get it confused with the UEA – that's in Norwich...
Challenge 2.6 – Mauritius
Mauritius has an interesting flag.
You'll need to check the colour codes out carefully to do this one.
Remember, the height of our normal flag is 120 steps. You'll need to divide that by 4 to get the height of each pf the stripes.
Other than that it shouldn't be too difficult.
Mauritius is an island nation in the Indian Ocean. It's east of Madagascar and used to be part of the empires of both France and Britain.
Challenge 2.7 – Costa Rica
The flag of Costa Rica has even more stripes on it, although it has fewer colours.
The middle stripe (the red one) is twice as wide as all the other stripes. The red stripe should be a third of the height of your flag.
Don't forget, the height of your normal flag is 120 turtle steps.
Think about how wide each of the other stripes needs to be and it shouldn't be too hard to draw it – although it will end up being a longer program than normal.
Costa Rica is in Central America in the region between Mexico and South America. It's famous for having lots of national parks and for not having a regular army.
Challenge 2.8 – Czech Republic
The Czech Republic has a flag that's quite tricky to draw.
It's made up of flags you've already drawn though. Can you get all the pieces of it put together from other flags?
One problem you'll have here is that there's a white section that will need a line around the outside. But only part of the outside.
That all makes the flag of the Czech Republic by far the hardest flag you've drawn.
So far.
The Czech Republic is in eastern Europe, just south of Poland. It used to be a bigger country called Czechoslovakia. This split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993.
That's it for Part 2. There are more, even trickier flags, in Part 3.