Declare a String variable named 'bestFrog' and initialize it to the first element of the frogNames array.? what am i missing

I just realized this question was concerning JAVA and not PHP as I foolishly assumed in the answer I gave. I don't know JAVA so I have removed my answer so it cannot cause any unnecessary confusion. lol

This should be the line of code you will require. It creates a string variable and assigns 1st value from string array. String bestFrog = frogNames[0];

I think you may have misread the task, as I do at least once a challenge... "bestfrog" shouldn't be in your string array, within the curly brackets. the line Monil wrote in the comment above will take the first value in the frogNames[] string and use that as it's value. because we are using the random number generator we need a number assigned to each of the frog names in the array. The zero in "String bestFrog = frogNames[0]" indicates the first name in the list because we count 0, 1, 2, etc in java. I explained the whole challenge here https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/declare-a-string-variable-named-lastfrog-and-initialize-it-with-the-third-element-of-the-frognames-array good luck.