# Academic exercise HELP
**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/academic-exercise-help/22130
**Category:** Coding Questions
**Tags:** homework
**Created:** [June 24, 2020, 4:12pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/academic-exercise-help/22130 "2020-06-24T16:12:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Nikos](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Nikos)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2020, 4:12pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/academic-exercise-help/22130/1 "2020-06-24T16:12:58Z")
Hello! I’m a newbie on processing and I have a question about an academic exercise. I want to make diagonal points with degrading strokeWeight(starting at point 0,0 with the bigger point). I must use this semi completed program :
void setup {
size(400, 400);
background(0);
stroke(255);
if( int y = 400; y \> 0; y-=10) {
strokeWeight(y\*\_\_\_\_);
point(y-400, y-400);
}
}
I have to fill the parenthesis in strokeWeight.
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### Author:  [@glv](https://discourse.processing.org/u/glv)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2020, 10:59pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/academic-exercise-help/22130/2 "2020-06-24T22:59:17Z")
> [@Nikos](#):
>
> I have to fill the parenthesis in strokeWeight.
Fill it in and see what happens!
This will require a bit more work than that.
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### Author:  [@paulgoux](https://discourse.processing.org/u/paulgoux)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/academic-exercise-help/22130/3 "2020-06-24T23:09:10Z")
you have to decrement the size in a for loop, also the code block needs to be in draw. Can’t say anymore than that as its an assignment. Good luck.
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### Author:  [@HackinHarry](https://discourse.processing.org/u/HackinHarry)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2020, 11:58pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/academic-exercise-help/22130/4 "2020-06-24T23:58:45Z")
You have to try things and observe. It’ll make you feel like a scientist when you get it right.
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### Author:  [@slow\_izzm](https://discourse.processing.org/u/slow_izzm)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2020, 12:15am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/academic-exercise-help/22130/5 "2020-06-25T00:15:08Z")
> [@paulgoux](#):
>
> the code block needs to be in draw
why would the code need to be in `draw()`?
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### Author:  [@paulgoux](https://discourse.processing.org/u/paulgoux)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2020, 12:23am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/academic-exercise-help/22130/6 "2020-06-25T00:23:00Z")
> [@Nikos](#):
>
> void setup {
> size(400, 400);
> background(0);
> stroke(255);
>
> if( int y = 400; y \> 0; y-=10) {
> strokeWeight(y\*\_\_\_\_);
> point(y-400, y-400);
> }
> }
it doesnt, I forgot you can draw straight from setup