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Java Local Development Environments Advanced Tooling Teamwork

Posted by Mary McCallum
Mary McCallum
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Exercise instructions unclear for this video. What does 'prompt for the story template' mean?

The exercise asks us to complete all the TODOs. The first one says this:

//TODO:csd - Instantiate a new Prompter object and prompt for the story template

        String story = "Thanks __name__ for helping me out.  You are really a __adjective__ __noun__ and I owe you a __noun__.";
        Template tmpl = new Template(story);

For the instruction, instantiate a new Prompter object, I have added:

Prompter prompter = new Prompter();

but what does 'prompt for the story template' mean? The instructions aren't making sense to me at all.