Introduction to Programming Using Java, Fourth Edition
News and Errata for Version 4.1
THIS PAGE LISTS news about this textbook. It will also list any changes and corrections that have been made after the release of Version 4.1. Any changes listed here have been made in the on-line version that is available at the textbooks official site, http://math.hws.edu/javanotes/. However, they have not been made in the downloadable archives of the textbook that are available on that page.
News
- June 22, 2004: About Java Programming Environments. Nick Coleman, a reader in Australia, has written to recommend BlueJ, an interactive Java programming environment available at http://www.bluej.org/. BlueJ is designed particularly for educational use and is free. Since it is written in Java, it will work with on any computer that has the Java SDK 1.4 or higher installed. I should also mention the Eclipse professional development environment, which is also written in Java and is also free. It is available at http://www.eclipse.org/.
- June, 2004. Version 4.1 has been released. There are only minor differences from Version 4.0, inclding some typographical corrections and a few notes about new features of Java in Java 1.4 and Java 1.5. For a list of corrections in this version, see the Version 4.0 errata file
- July 16, 2002. The new fourth edition was completed and released today.
Errata
The following changes have been made to the on-line version of this textbook. However, these changes are not included in the downloadable archives of the web site:
- April 16, 2005. In section 6.1, line 328 in file s6/s1.html, the class name "swing.javax.JOptionPane" should be changed to "javax.swing.JOptionPane".
- March 8, 2005. In three places in Section 11.5, changed the word "propsitional" to "prepositional".
- March 4, 2005. Corrected several typographical errors that were reported by a reader: Section 5.6 (line 232): change "get some getting used to" to "take some getting used to"; Chapter 5 Exercises (line 87) and Exercise 5.2 solution (line 65): change "that available" to "that are available"; Chapter 5 Exercises (line 145) and Exercise 5.5 solution (line 20): change "let's" to "lets"; Section 8.5 (line 65): change "you can another" to "you can use another"; and Section 8.5 (line 523): change "a <tt>ArrayList</tt>" to "an <tt>ArrayList</tt>".
- June 22, 2004. I have added the Eclipse and BlueJ Java development environments to the list of IDE's in Appendix 2 (file name progenv.html).
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