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C# C# Basics (Retired) Console I/O Console I/O

Posted by MUHAMMAD SAIF ULLAH
MUHAMMAD SAIF ULLAH
459 Points

Use the System.Console.Write() method to print "Enter a book title: " to the console.

help My Answer: System.Console.Write(" Enter a book title");

CodeChallenge.cs 
System.Console.Write ("Enter a book title");
string bookTitle= System.Console.Readline("saif");

2 Answers

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points
Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

Three issues:

  • You are only printing the message "Enter a book title". You need to print "Enter a book title: " with a colon and a space at the end of the string. Code challenges are extremely picky!
  • You don't need to pass in any arguments to ReadLine(). You are doing Readline("saif"), remove the "saif" part!
  • You "misspelled" ReadLine as Readline. C# is case-sensitive, meaning that "A" and "a" are different letters. In this case, you used a lowercase L instead of an uppercase L!

I hope this helps :grin:

:dizzy: ~Alex :dizzy:

MUHAMMAD SAIF ULLAH
MUHAMMAD SAIF ULLAH
459 Points

thanks so much for explaining

MUHAMMAD SAIF ULLAH
MUHAMMAD SAIF ULLAH
459 Points
MUHAMMAD SAIF ULLAH
MUHAMMAD SAIF ULLAH
459 Points

System.Console.Write ("Enter a book title");