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Java Java Basics Getting Started with Java IO

Anurag Gracian
Anurag Gracian
315 Points
Posted by Anurag Gracian
Anurag Gracian
315 Points

dont know how to proceed here

please help with this challenge

IO.java 
// I have imported java.io.Console for you.  It is a variable called consol
String firstName=

1 Answer

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points
Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points

try

String firstName= console.readLine("Please enter a first name");

the explanation of the readLine method is that is "Provides a formatted prompt, then reads a single line of text from the console.". So you pass it a prompt (a bit of text to display to the user) to use, and it returns a string. Since you want to use that string, you assign the value returned to a variable.