Function and turtle help

Fri Feb 21 21:13:26 EST 2014

 Scott W Dunning <swdunning at cox.net> Wrote in message:
>> On Feb 20, 2014, at 11:30 PM, Dave Angel <davea at davea.name> wrote:
>>> Look at turtle.begin_fill and turtle.end_fill
>>>> That's after making sure your star is a closed shape.
>>>> So, this is what I have so far and it â€œworksâ€ but, it fills in the star with black and as you can see below I am trying to fill it in with red. So Iâ€™m obviously messing up somewhere. 
>> def fillcolor(red):
> pencolor()
> begin_fill()
> star(500)
> end_fill()
>> red = pencolor
> fillcolor(red)
>
You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of how variables
 and function parameters work.
> def fillcolor(red):
 The parameter should be something like color, not red.
> pencolor()
 You need an argument to this function if you expect it to
 change the color. I suggest color, the parameter we just
 renamed.
> red = pencolor

That does nothing at all useful for you. I expect you really want
 red = "red"
-- 
DaveA