sesame

Hello!

So your code right now looks like:

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

So the first thing to fix is the way you are declaring the variable secret. You just want to declare it so it exists outside of the loop, but you don't want to trigger the prompt yet. You'll trigger the prompt inside the do...while loop. So let's change that first.

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

So now you've declared the variable outside the loop, but wait until the loop runs to trigger the prompt and set the user's answer in the variable 'secret'. The next thing to fix is the way you are placing the condition right after 'do'. This doesn't make sense because you want to place your curly brackets right after the 'do'. The program will run the code after 'do' regardless of any conditions. Then it will look at the condition after 'while' to see if it needs to repeat that block of code. So first you'll want to delete the initial condition so your code looks like this:

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

Okay, so now the syntax of the code is right, but the condition in the while loop isn't quite right. If we ran this code the prompt would repeat when the user enters 'sesame' and print 'You know the secret password. Welcome.' whenever the user typed anything else. That's kind of the opposite of what you want, right? So we'll change the condition inside of this while condition to look like this:

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

Now the program will know about the secret variable, then open a prompt and set the user's input into that variable. Then it will check if that input matches the string "sesame". If it doesn't match, the code will keep prompting the user and setting the user's input to the variable 'secret' over and over and over again. Once the user's input 'secret' matches the string "sesame" the program will break out of the while loop and continue on to the line that prints the message to the document.