i thinki am doing it right, but for some reason the computer keeps telling me i am doing it wrong, help please

The intention of the challenge is to create a string variable that holds the string value of your favorite color.

The starting position is:

favoriteColor String equals "";

which isn't correct, obviously - that's why this is a challenge.

First we need to state that the variable being declared is a string and then give the variable a name. The challenge suggests we call it favoriteColor. We then need to assign a value to it or which we use the 'equals' sign, =. After that we need to state what the favorite color is and surround that with inverted commas, implying that the value is a string. You chose "blue". All that needs ending with a semicolon.

That all looks like:

String favoriteColor = "blue";

I hope that helps.

Steve.