What am I missing??

Question

I have tried this several ways, but I cannot get through this challenge. What am I doing wrong? It keeps saying it took too long to run the code, which to me means I have a continuous loop.

app.js

var secret = prompt("What is the secret password?");
var guess;

while ( guess !== "sesame" )  {

document.write("You know the secret password. Welcome.");
  }

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>JavaScript Loops</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Answer 1 · 2015-03-11T01:29:36Z

March 11, 2015 1:29am

Hi, Karen Niekum

The code in app.js just opens a prompt, asks for a password, and writes to the document. Something is missing. Add a while loop, so that a prompt keeps appearing until the user types "sesame" into the prompt.

Actually you don't need an extra variable guess for this problem; also, the document.write("You know the secret password. Welcome."); should be outside of the while loop.

The correct approach for this challenge is

first create a while loop
check if the secret variable equals to "sesame", if not, then keep prompting user to enter a new guess value for secret
when the secret has been correctly guessed, print out "You know the secret password. Welcome."

var secret = prompt("What is the secret password?");
while (secret !== "sesame") {
  secret = prompt("What is the secret password?");
}
document.write("You know the secret password. Welcome.");

Answer 2 · 2015-03-11T01:35:34Z

March 11, 2015 1:35am

Thank you so much. I think I was making this a lot harder than it has to be.

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