A number that remembers

Challenge 3 of 12

A variable made above everyFrame keeps its value from frame to frame, so adding to it moves a shape. Made inside, it would be remade each time and stand still.

Start x at 20, add 8 each frame, and draw a GREEN circle at x, 200, 70 across, on BLACK.

Your code JavaScript

Start x at 20, add 8 each frame, and draw a GREEN circle at x, 200, 70 across, on BLACK.

Console print() output

0 / 40 frames · 400×400

Target

Yours

Yours over Target — ghosted shapes are in the target but missing from yours

Results

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Penalties: none this run

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Lesson Code it yourself

This topic takes the last thing away. There is no code in the editor at all: no everyFrame, no background, no readout line along the bottom. You write the animation from the first character.

The buttons above the editor do the fiddly part. Click everyFrame and the whole block appears with the cursor inside it. Click circle and you get a circle line with numbers to change. Click var and you get a box to name. Nothing a button gives you is ever the answer — it is the shape of the code, and the choosing is still yours.

Two rules decide whether an animation works, and both are about where a line sits rather than what it says. A var that must remember goes above everyFrame: made inside, it is remade every frame and the number never grows. And the background goes first inside everyFrame, because it paints over whatever was there before — leave it out and every frame smears on top of the last.

The order inside everyFrame is the order things happen. Change the number, then draw with it. Draw first and you are always one frame behind.

Everything else here you have already met: frameNumber counting itself up, mouseX and mouseY, a variable plus a speed, two of them for down as well as across, a size that grows, a colour built from three numbers, limit for walls, and an if that flips a speed to make a bounce.

There is no readout line in this topic, so the picture is all you have to go on. Press Run early, one line at a time. If nothing appears, check that the drawing lines are inside everyFrame's curly brackets and that everyFrame has its capital F.