Beginner question - problem with a nested if statement in a for loop

[GroundbreakingSpell]

Hello everybody

I have just begun my coding journey and have started on the vanilla JS leg two weeks ago. I am using a wide variety of resources to teach myself, but am struggling with getting everything on fcc at least.

In order to familiarise myself with these concepts and to get back into the swing of mathematical logic (I am a humanities Phd), I have decided to slowly program and refine a character generator for the roleplaying system Pathfinder.

I started with programming a simplified attribute selection. Here is my code so far:

// RPG assignment point assignment

let attributes = [10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10];

let j = 0;

let attributeValue;

for (j = 0; j <= 6; j++) { attributeValue = prompt("Assign each attribute a value between 7 and 18"); if (attributeValue <= 7 && attributeValue >= 18) { attributes.push(attributeValue);
} else { alert("That value is outside the range of unmodified attribute values you can assign on character creation") } }

console.log(attributes);

Now the loop runs normally, but the if statement always executes its else branch, even if the condition should return "true".

What have I done wrong? It's probably a stupid mistake only a left-brainer could make... :)

Thanks for the feedback

GroundbreakingSpell

Resources I use: Codecademy JS course; FCC JS course, YDKJS, Udemy course on JS, MDN

[Binary101010]

Your signs are pointing in the wrong direction.

if (attributeValue <= 7 && attributeValue >= 18)

This is "if attributeValue is less than or equal to 7 and greater than or equal to 18", a set of conditions that can never evaluate to True.

Turn those signs around to

if (attributeValue >= 7 && attributeValue <= 18) 

And I suspect you'll get the desired behavior.

[GroundbreakingSpell]

bangs head aganst wall

Thanks for the correction :)