Why does it say "your code took too long to run?"

Question

I am trying to do the while loop objective in this lesson and instead of helping/correcting the computer just keeps saying my code took too long to run.

Why is this happening?

app.js

var secret = prompt("What is the secret password?");
var answer;
while(answer !== "sesame"){
  alert(secret);
}

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 · 2015-07-13T01:02:30Z

July 13, 2015 1:02am

This means your while loop is repeating infinitely, so at a certain point the computer just stops running it. That's why it says your code took too long to run.

The reason why the loop is never ending is because answer will never equal "sesame". The reason why answer will never equal "sesame" is because you are saving the user response to secret in the line:

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

Secret is set to the user response but answer is never set to anything. What you can do is:

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

But you will also have to copy this code inside the loop because otherwise the user will only get one chance to answer the question and then the never ending loop will start because answer = "some wrong answer" and never = "sesame" unless you ask them to try again inside the loop.

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