What does "prompt for the story template" mean?

You're not any less agile. I'm fresh out of college and these directions are vague. I do highly respect the Craig and the moderators, but it seams like a lot of the learners are having trouble picking up on the high context terminology in this lesson.

I did eventually solve the challenge though. So lemme break down the first TODO:

// TODO:csd - Instantiate a new Prompter object and prompt for the story template

To be clear, instantiation is the process of creating a new object from a class definition. Prompter() is defined in Prompter.java. So lets create a new prompter like the Java Gods we are:

Prompter prompter = new Prompter();

Well, now the task is half done, but we still need to "prompt for the story template" -- this is where it gets confusing because 'prompt' in this context is not a java term, rather it the action that the prompter object does with data (in coorelation a 'boxer' object would 'box' data in a java program). The prompter object we instantiated is incomplete in that it's not gonna do anything until we feed/give it a story. So let's give it a story and let it do it's job (study prompter.class to understand). **Note that Craig said "We've been prompting using readLine." So let's feed the prompter a story in a line. (cuz apparently prompter's love cocaine. lolz :))

You can accomplish feeding the prompter a line various ways, but I opted to simply replace the String story = prompter.createStory();

with

System.out.printf("%nWrite your story here mark word class for the story with surrounding it with __ (example: __name__) to be filled:%n");.

It just simplified things in my mind. Anyways that concludes the first TODO: how to.

We've been prompting using readLine.

That hint help?

Even though Craig is gone and it's three years since this post was made, I went through all prereqs and still find this difficult to understand. I think it's a problem with my understanding of what to do next based on the verbiage. I need it spelled out like make a new object then you will pass in a stary template.

it helps a bit... but feeling way out of my league. maybe i need to take more remedial Java courses for awhile until I can see how things fit together better.

I created a getter for the private mReader object then was able to call in Main prompter.getReader(); but that didn't do much.