Errata

• p11 - At the bottom of the page, the web site publicstaticvoidmain.com should actually be publicstaticvoidmain.org.
• p22 - In the fourth paragraph, first sentence, the word "for" should be removed:
  Some development environments,such as Eclipse, help you along the way by underlining syntax errors for as you write your program.

  (Thanks to UW student Kaydee Smith for the correction!)

• p24 - In the second paragraph under "Logic Errors (Bugs)", "the the" should be "the".

  (Thanks to Technical University of Denmark professor, Jørgen Villadsen)

• p30 - In the second paragraph, the word "up" is misspelled "0up".

  (Thanks to UW student Melanie Drake for the correction!)

• p31 - In the third paragraph, first sentence, the words "of the" should be removed:
  In a sense, the execution of this program is sequential: Each of the statement listed in the main method is executed in turn, from first to last.

  (Thanks to UW student Kaydee Smith for the correction!)

• p44 - Self-check problem #15 actually has four errors, not three. The fourth error is that the word args is missing from the header to the main method. Appendix A on page 784 should also be corrected to match.

  (Thanks to UW student Dan Quoc Hoang for the correction!)

• p59 - In the bulleted list of division expressions near the top of the page, the second line should read:
  • 207 / 10 is 20.7 on a calculator, so 207 / 10 evaluates to 20

  (Thanks to UW student Nicole Scharping for the correction!)

• p106 - In self-check problem number 3, the expressions 12 / 7 * 4.4 * 2 / 4 and 4.0 / 2 * 9 / 2 mistakenly occur twice. Appendix A on page 788 should also be corrected to match.

  (Thanks to UW student Raevynn Leach for the correction!)

• p168 - In Exercise 12, the last expression should be:

  str2.toLowerCase().substring(9, 13) + str3.substring(18, str3.length() - 7)
  

  (Thanks to CSU Stanislaus student Kristi Davis for the correction!)

• p193 - In the second paragraph, the word iterativ-e should be spelled iterative.

  (Thanks to UW student Brandon Dilbeck for the correction!)

• p241 - the fifth System.out.printf call should be the following:

  System.out.printf("%.2f%10.1f\n", angle, angle);
  

  (Thanks to UW student David Li for the correction!)

• p267 - the output of the printFactors method call should be the following:

  1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 6 and 8 and 12 and 24
  

  (Thanks to UW student Steven Pell for the correction!)

• p343 - drawing should have "Hello." and "up?" as tokens
• p361 - the word you is misspelled as you0.

  (Thanks to UW student David Nufer for the correction!)

• p386 - The sentence,

  Most of the algorithms we have seen so for have involved sequential access.

  should be,

  Most of the algorithms we have seen so far have involved sequential access.

  (Thanks to UW student Alvaro Velez de Villa for the correction!)

• p390 - In the Tally program line 11, the keywords new int should be colored brown.

  (Thanks to Technical University of Denmark professor, Jørgen Villadsen)

• p391 - The sentence,

  The only change you would would have to make would be to allocate a larger array:

  should be,

  The only change you would have to make would be to allocate a larger array:

  (Thanks to UW student Liz Moffat for the correction!)

• p420 - In the PascalsTriangle program line 16, the keyword int should be colored brown.

  (Thanks to Technical University of Denmark professor, Jørgen Villadsen)

• p451 - The sentence,

  You might not specify every detail about the car,such as the fact that it should have four wheels and headlights,but you do specify some initial attributes that are important you.

  should be,

  You might not specify every detail about the car,such as the fact that it should have four wheels and headlights,but you do specify some initial attributes that are important to you.

  (Thanks to UW student Joseph Dunaravich for the correction!)

• p482 - The share price written for the first of the "INTC" stock purchases should be 16.55, not 16.50:

  1: How many shares, at what price per share? 15 16.55
  

  (Thanks to UW student Chun Yu Lai for the correction!)

• p613 - A in "Ancient Greek" should be lowercase
• p782 - The company "Macrosoft" mentioned in our fictitious screenshot is a real company! We'll change the screenshot in the next edition
• p815 - The solution given to self-check #7 is incomplete. The Tally program's println statement should be changed to:

  System.out.println(1000000 + i + "\t" + count[i]);
  

  (Thanks to UW student Nancy Do for the correction!)

• p816 - The solution shown has a println statement that incorrectly capitalizes the "E" in the word "Element". It should be lowercase.

  System.out.println("element [" + i + "] is " + data[i]);
  

  (Thanks to UW student Nancy Do for the correction!)

• p825 - The solution to Chapter 9, Exercise 3 misspells the word new . The line should read:

  SUV s = new SUV();
  

  (Thanks to UW student Ashlimarie Dong for the correction!)

• p864 - The page numbers listed for the index entry "comments" should be 19-21, 20

  (Thanks to UW student Matt Kipps for the correction!)

• p869 - The page numbers listed for the index entry "random numbers" should be 276-279

  (Thanks to UW student Noa Piper for the correction!)

• p870 - Under "sorting", a sub-entry "quicksort 690" should be added, and subentry "selection sorts" should be "selection sort".

  (Thanks to Technical University of Denmark professor, Jørgen Villadsen)

• Ch 7 - Sorting is not covered in the chapter any more, but some exercises require sorting.
• Ch 13 - the range methods' comment headers should not say, "returns the largest element in the array."

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