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Jacquelyn Springs
9,395 Pointswould I change the 'prompt' to be a variable or shall I console.log
// Display the prompt dialogue while the value assigned to `secret` is not equal to "sesame"
let secret = password("What is the secret password?");
do {
secret = password("sesame");
}
while ( password !== 'sesame' );
// This should run after the loop is done executing
alert("You know the secret password. Welcome!");
1 Answer
Brandon White
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 34,660 PointsHi Jacquelyn,
You really seem to understand the logic behind how the do...while loop works, but you’ve removed the prompt function and replaced it with password. The problem is that prompt() is a function that JavaScript interpreters understand.
More specifically prompt() is a function which returns output. And that output is stored in a variable (if there’s a variable available with which to store it).
So in the original code, if I was prompted to enter a password, and I typed “bartholomew” into my keyboard, the variable secret would contain the string “bartholomew”. Then you could compare secret to ”sesame" to see if your program should break the loop.
password is not a function (unless you define it as one), and as such password("What is the secret password?"); is invalid syntax. (Error: password is not a function).
What I would do is go back to the original lines of code and simply wrap the secret variable declaration inside the do...while loop code block. And as far as the while loop condition, that looks good. You just want to make sure you’re comparing secret to “sesame” and not password to “sesame”.
I hope that makes sense. If you need a little bit more help, let me know.
Good luck, Coder.