It keeps asking if I forgot to pas the firstName function throught my parameter. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong

Hey,

Took me a minute to get to this question.

Let's walk down your code. You totally had the right idea, in the way that the question reads. It would make sense to do what you did.

QUESTION: Declare a variable that is named the camel-cased version of "first name". Store the user's first name into this new variable using console.readLine.

I can see where you go this from.

String firstName = ("Bryce");
console.readLine("%s, firstName");

What this should really look like is this.

String firstName = console.readLine("Ryan");

This ensures that what is being read in is set to FirstName. What you did was a bit different. Let's talk about that for a second.

You are saving a variable to your name. You don't actually need the parenthesis.

String firstName = "Bryce";

Although that does create a variable so I am ok with that at this time. The second thing you do is console.readLine variable first name. Yeah so that kinda works and passes the challenge. But it's not what the test behind the scenes is looking for. It's looking Yes, the output for task 1 and 2 will pass since it just checks the output. Which technically you are still ok.

When it comes to the task 3 it is looking for specifics. It is looking for this.

String firstName = console.readLine("Ryan");
String lastName = console.readLine("Says hi");

console.printf("First name: %s", firstName);

It's looking for you to read the line in via the console and save it to firstName. Then use that in the console.printf.

I mean technically console.printf should of printed the variable. Except the test on treehouse checks to make sure you are doing it in a certain way. That's all I can assume.

Anyway, let me know if this helps you out and if you have any other questions I can help you with.