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Java Java Basics Using your New Tools Coding the Prototype

What is wrong with my code

import java.io.Console;

public class TreeStory {}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    Console console = System.console();

            /*  Some terms:
        noun - Person, place or thing
        verb - An action
        adjective - A description used to modify or describe a noun
        Enter your amazing code here!
    */

    String name = console.readLine("Enter your name :     ");
    String adjective = console.readLine("Enter an adjective:    ");
    String noun = console.readLine("Enter a noun:   ");
    String adverb = console.readLine("Enter and adverb:   ");
    String verb = console.readLine("Enter a verb:   ");

        console.printf("Your TreeStory:\n------------\n");
        conosle.printf("%s is a %s %s.  " , name, adjective, noun);
        conosle.printf("They are always %s %s.\n", adverb, verb);

}

// it says I have 15 errors TreeStory.java:5: error: class, interface, or enum expected
public static void main(String[] args) { TreeStory.java:15: error: class, interface, or enum expected
String name = console.readLine("Enter your name : ");
TreeStory.java:16: error: class, interface, or enum expected
String adjective = console.readLine("Enter an adjective: ");

3 Answers

Tabatha Trahan
Tabatha Trahan
21,422 Points

It looks like the issue may be where you opened your class. You have the opening and closing curly braces with nothing in them, and then you start your main method, but it isn't contained in the class code block. Try removing that closing curly brace where you declared your class and it should work.

alastair cooper
alastair cooper
30,617 Points

is your class closed immediately? ie TreeStory{} instead of TreeStory{