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Tirth Upadhyay
920 PointsWhat am i doing wrong here?
it says: Use Console.WriteLine to print the contents of the firstName variable to the screen.
what am i doing wrong here?
string firstName = Console.ReadLine();
Console.WriteLine = ( firstName );
1 Answer
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherIn short: an extra equals sign. Remember an equals is an assignment operator. And WriteLine is a method on the Console object. We generally send in information in the parentheses. This is what it's looking for:
string firstName = Console.ReadLine();
Console.WriteLine (firstName);