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Curtis Wyman
147 PointsString variable output
I don't understand how the value stored into string variable 'firstName' is not outputting the stored value after coding my 'printf' function.
// I have imported java.io.Console for you. It is a variable called console.
String firstName = "Curtis";
String lastName = "Wyman";
console.readLine(firstName);
console.readLine(lastName);
console.printf("First name: %s", firstName);
1 Answer
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi there! To be honest, I'm not exactly sure why this passed the first two steps. What it's wanting is for what is being read in by the console.readLine to be assigned to the variables required. Here's a sort of pseudo-example of what it's looking for.
String streetAddress = console.readLine("Enter your street address: ");
This will prompt the user to enter their address and then read in the user's input and assign it to the variable streetAddress. Right now, your code prints out a prompt with your name and then reads in something from the user, but it never assigns it anywhere.
I hope these hints help, but let me know if you're still stuck!
