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Java Java Basics Getting Started with Java IO

Stuck with coding challenge didnt get that fear yet

Challenge Task 1 of 4 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.

im not sure how to do this one could anyone help me ?

IO.java
// I have imported java.io.Console for you.  It is a variable called console.

2 Answers

Alex Bratkovskij
Alex Bratkovskij
5,329 Points

Hi Thomas,

You remember how they told us that coding is about solving problems? Well here it is. Lets break it up into smaller pieces, shall we?

  1. Declare a variable with the name - first name. in camel case

a. What is camel case?

camelCaseIsThis 

b. what type of variable they want? String because we will be storing user name.

  1. store users name into variable using command. a. we assign values to variables with "=", so in normal way it would be :
VariableType variableName = value; 

but we can do it more dynamically and get what we want from a method:

VariableType variableName = method.smth(); 

if that was still confusing here is the answer:

String firstName = console.ReadLine();

that was a really good guide to get me started better off here at coding thank you very much !