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Evanson Muigai
38 Pointsprintf
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String firstName = "Evanson";
System.out.println("Evanson");
2 Answers
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 PointsHi there,
It looks like what's happening is you're trying to assign the string value twice. Once when you define the variable, and again when you're referencing it.
To print out the value of the variable once you have assign it, simply pass in the variable name to the method. Then you need to work out how to work with format specifiers like %s to display them with a formatted string. Hint... the printf method has 2 arguments separated by a comma. :-)
Marque Burgess
5,161 PointsJonathan is right. You can do System.out.print with your variable name and be fine. Printf would be useful for when your formatting strings. I actually learned about formatting strings("printf") going through the Java track also.