"Make sure you're assigning the result of retrieving an item from the array to a constant named value"

You're so close here, and you've done soooo well! You've even understood indexes in arrays In fact, I'm just going to give you a hint from the instructions:

Retrieve the 5th item (remember array indexes start at 0) and assign the result to a constant named value.

Can you point to the part in your code where you have let value = ?

Good luck!

var arrayOfInts = [1,2,3,4,5,6]

arrayOfInts.append(7)

arrayOfInts += [8]

let firstTask = arrayOfInts[4]

arrayOfInts[4] = 9

I didn't have "let value = ?", but I'm still not sure where I'm going wrong

Ok, thought you'd get it with the hint! Give this a go

// Enter your code below
var arrayOfInts = [1,2,3,4,5,6]
arrayOfInts.append(7)
arrayOfInts += [8]
let value = arrayOfInts[4]  
let discardedValue = arrayOfInts.removeAtIndex(5)

Happy coding!

let value = arrayOfInts[4]  
let discardedValue = arrayOfInts.removeAtIndex(5)

I didn't learn this bit of coding i my training.

you used "value" where I had "firstTask" and the second "let" statement before "= arrayOfInts.removeAtIndex(5)"

I need to better understand how and when to string code together and why.

LOL, I was on step 3 of 4 in the code challenge the next step had me create the last line of code. that makes more sense now. Thanks