Al Sweigart wrote a nice tutorial here: https://github.com/asweigart/simple-turtle-tutorial-for-pyth...
Turns out that pyturtle has a nice beginner friendly interface with global functions (I overlooked it at first). The library makes this on the fly with a nice trick: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/f978a79130133de1cf264...
they make a global function for each of methods of the turtle class by means of eval.