Introductions.java:8: error: ';' expected

You did not put your ending sign when it did. ‘;’ it is telling you that you forgot the thing in the apostrophes.

I tryd putting the ending signs and it still didnt work

Michael;

Welcome to Treehouse. I'm excited to see you learn here and you've picked a great starting point with Java.

It would be very helpful to see all of the code you have written in Introductions.java. Please post back and we can get this sorted out. That error message is fairly common in Java, but seeing the entire bit of code is incredibly helpful when attempting to debug.

Thanks and I look forward to seeing you post again.

Ken

Michael;

You're missing a semi-colon at the end of line eight. With that in place, the code runs as expected.

import java.io.Console;

public class Introductions {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Console console = System.console();
        // Welcome to the Introductions program!  Your code goes below here
        console.printf("Hello, my name is Michael");
  }
}

Let's walk through the error message you were getting a bit:

Introductions.java:8: error: ';' expected

• Introductions.java is the file name that has an error.
• 8 is the line with the error
• ';' expected is what the error is
• The carat, ^ on the next line is pointing to where the error occurred.

Post back if you're still stuck.

Happy coding,
Ken