Can Someone Please help me!??

Your code is close to correct but there are some notable issues:

1. When you reference variables you should not enclose their names in quotes, quote marks are only used when you want to create a string, for any other type of data you should not use them.

2. You should not use the System.exit() command when doing these challenges. it's not really necessary since the program will exit once it's done running your code anyway, and it will cause issues with the code checker that verifies your code since it causes it to exit earlier than it is supposed to.

3. You cannot reference a variable before it is declared in a method, in your solution you have the comparison code above the code that declares the second and third variable. It needs to be moved below them.

If you fix all of those issues you end up with this code:

String firstExample = "hello";
String secondExample = "hello";
String thirdExample = "HELLO";
if(firstExample.equals(secondExample)){
  console.printf("first is equal to second");
}

Which will pass the first task.

Also do note that for challenges which have multiple parts like this one you have to keep your code from previous tasks around, so when you are completing task 2 do not change or remove the code you wrote in this task. If you do you won't be able to complete the challenge.

you use == (two equal signs) to check two values against each other. A single equal sign, = , is the assignment operator, aka it assigns values to objects. Note that == may not always be used depending on how the object was created, same with the assignment operator. Some times you must override the operator. That's further down the line of your education path. You'll learn all about shallow and deep copy too :)