Console console = System.console()

Hi there! What we're doing here is making an object of type Console from the System class that's part of Java and assigning it to a variable named console.

Now that probably doesn't mean a whole lot to you right now, but it will. I promise you will get more in depth on objects and methods later. But here's what it's doing for you right now. You know all those times you have to type console.printf? If we didn't have that, to get the same result we'd have to type System.console.printf every single time.

Here is documentation on the Console class which itself is a member of the System class. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/io/Console.html

Hope this helps!

Hi to continue on from what Jennifer stated, even that is too much in my honest opinion if you are just getting started. All you really need to know right now is that the console() method returns the Console instance (Object) to work with it in the form of writing text to the terminal. Do not confuse yourself, you can't know everything and you won't know everything, that is perfectly fine! :-)