I cannot get the 3/3 to work. I used w3schools to reference console log. I need help. Are all the courses incomplete?

Your original code formatted:

angular.module ('foobar', [ ]) 
    .directive ('customDirective', function ( ) { 
    return { 
        template : 'test' console.log('This is a custom Directive!) //cannot call a function here, youre defining an object 
    }; 
});

First, you're missing a ' at the end of your console.log's parameter. It should look like

console.log('This is a custom Directive!')

Now that we have that out of the way let's look at the real problem.

I've added a comment where the problem is. Your directive's anonymous function is returning an object. Think of this object as the configuration for your directive. Inside an object you must have key-value pairs and they have to be separated by a comma. So after 'test' there should be a comma. But even so your code would still not work. After the comma you'd need to define a new key which is a string followed by a : and then anything that you'd like as a value for that key.

Anyways the challenge states that your directive should immediately do the console.log. If you put in anywhere inside the returned object it will not happen unless your directive is used. So you should move console.log() up before the return and inside your directive's anonymous function. Like this:

angular.module ('foobar', [ ]) 
    .directive ('customDirective', function ( ) { 
    console.log('This is a custom Directive!');
    return { 
        template : 'test'
    }; 
});

It makes more sense now. Your anon function calls console.log() and returns your directive's configuration afterwards.

Hope this helps.