Challenge Task 1

You were close, but you made a couple of mistakes.

They wanted you to declar the var secret outside of the loop, but to call the prompt within the do while loop. The reason for this is you know a do while loop will always run at least once, so we don't have to call the prompt outside the loop the first time.

The other mistake was that you just used secret; inside the loop. You didn't do anything with the variable.

Here's the code they're looking for:

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

Note: I verified that the code passed the challenge.

Secret does nothing, as it is just a variable containing a value. And since the loop is not calling the prompt function, so "secret" will never receive a new value in your loops. You need to loop over a new prompt, something like :

secret = prompt('That is incorrect. Try again');

so that the value in the variable changes each time through, otherwise the loops is endless.

Thanks Roy and Jason for explaining.