I don't necessarily want the exact coding to solve this... What I would like is for somebody to please explain (in mono-syllable newb-speak, please) what the requirements are and what needs to happen to fix the problem. I have been googling 'java exceptions' for a couple days now trying to figure out what needs to happen and so far I am more confused than when I started. This is getting more and more frustrating because I was able to sail through the first few tasks with only a few setbacks that I was able to figure out and overcome. Is there some key piece of knowledge that I failed to glean from the previous exercises? right now I am receiving the following compile time error Error in com/codegym/task/task09/task0914/Solution.java on line 52 <identifier> expected