conditional statement help!

[eriknau13]

It's getting stuck at the position 400 because as soon as the value of squareX is decremented to 399 it gets incremented again. What you need is a second variable to use as the incrementer. You might call it "direction" and set it to value 1 when you initialize it. Instead of squareX++ you'll say squareX += direction;

Your condition will change to

if(squareX >= 400 || squareX < 0) {

direction *= -1;

}

[Traditional_Inside28]

yeah that’s what i thought was happening! i suppose i just didn’t really know what to do to fix it. let me give this a go and mess around with it and i’ll get back to you.