copied workspace perfectly... didn't work! this is frickin hard!

Dallas,

Don't just copy the workspaces. The code for these challenges is supposed to be specifically for these challenges. I'll walk you through it.

First thing's first, assigning your first name to a variable. What variable would your first name be? That's right, a String.

Task 1/3 code;

String firstName = "YourFirstName";

Task 2/3 wants you to call the printf method on the console and make it write your "<YOUR NAME> can code in java!" Calling printf on console basically means to write console.printf. It literally wants you to write "<YOUR NAME> can code in Java!"

Task 2/3 code:

String firstName = "YourFirstName";
console.printf("<YOUR NAME> can code in Java!");

Task 3/3 wants you to access the firstName variable and print it out instead of "<YOUR NAME>". To do this, you will have to recall the String formatter that you learned in the lessons: %s

Task 3/3 code:

String firstName = "YourFirstName";
console.printf("%s can code in Java!", firstName);

To tell the console what variable you want to print for %s, you place a comma after the closing double-quote, and put the variable, which is, in this case, firstName.

Hope this helped!

Thanks!! That helped a ton... I got it now,