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Java Java Basics Getting Started with Java Receiving Input

Posted by Alexandru Ungureanu
Alexandru Ungureanu
1,571 Points

"incompatible types: String cannot be converted to boolean"? I wrote words by words like Craig. Which is the problem?

I explained in the question

Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher
Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Alexandru;

Can you post your code, please?

Ken

janice chew
janice chew
790 Points
janice chew
janice chew
790 Points

i have the same problem. Here my comment String firstname = console.readline(" What is your name? ");

1 Answer

Michael Neimat
Michael Neimat
2,680 Points
Michael Neimat
Michael Neimat
2,680 Points

the L in readLine needs to be capitalized