Parameters

The first part of the challenge just wants you to call Console.ReadLine() and assign what you input from the console into a string variable called firstName.

The second part of the challenge wants you to use Console.WriteLine() to write what's in the variable firstName into the output window.

Parameters are extra information a method needs in order to do its work. Mainly parameters are used to generalize a method so it can be used in multiple places. Console.WriteLine() is a weird example, since it has almost 20 overloads (methods of the same name, but it takes in different parameters or types of parameters (string, int, etc.)).

For another example, let's take an add method:

public int Add(int x, int y)
{
  return x + y;
}

For our add method to work we need to pass in the information to work on, in this case two integers to add. The names of those parameters we define in the method signature - public int Add(int x, int y) and we can use those names within the body of our method - return x + y;. Outside of the method, though, we can't access those names again.

Hope that somewhat helps, but I'll be glad to explain more.