Why one of them stands still

Challenge 4 of 18

Both lines add the same amount, and one shape still will not budge. The orange square's var line is inside everyFrame, so its number is made fresh, and set back to 20, before every single frame.

Set both steps to 6 and watch only the circle leave.

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Set both steps to 6 and watch only the circle leave.

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Lesson Moving Right

A number that remembers.

var x = 0; above everyFrame makes the number once, before the first frame. x = x + 6; inside everyFrame changes it on every frame after that. That second line looks wrong the first time you read it, because it looks like a claim about what x equals. It is not — it is an instruction, and the right-hand side happens first: take what x is, add 6, and make that the new x. Read it right to left and it makes sense.

Above, not inside.

If the var line goes inside everyFrame, the number is made again from scratch before every frame, so it is set back to its starting value every time and the shape stands still. Challenge 4 shows both at once, side by side. There is another block that runs once, start(), which you met when you set the canvas size — that one is for setting the sketch up, not for making numbers. A number made in there is invisible to everyFrame.

Two things to look at.

Every challenge in this topic prints its number along the bottom, on the target as well as on yours, so you can compare numbers instead of squinting at pixels. Drag the bar under the target to any frame and read what the number had reached — challenge 13 cannot be done any other way. And Try runs your sketch on its own, with no marking and no time limit, if you just want to watch it go.