Instructions from your teacher: a console menu is basically a text menu. after it is outputted to the console a user input is captured. then the program decides what to do according to the user input (what the user selected). our console menu has 3 items called "options" System.out.println("---------------"); System.out.println("select an option:"); System.out.println("1) option 1"); System.out.println("2) option 2"); System.out.println("3) option 3"); System.out.println("---------------"); which outputs: --------------- select an option: 1) option 1 2) option 2 3) option 3 --------------- Then using scanner, user will enter 1, 2 or 3 if choice is 1 print: **user selected 1** if choice is 2 print: **user selected 2** if choice is 3 print: **user selected 3**