Errors that Appear in the Second Edition

Page 111

In Example 1, the value of the expression is 'Y', not 'N'.

Errors that Appear in Both Printings of the First Edition

Page 151

In Question 2, change "the each" to "each".

Page 151

In Question 3 (a), move the declarations of transCode and response to the start of the fragment, before the do loop begins.

Page 227

In Example 4, change sum += list[i]; to total += list[i];

Pages 306 and 307

In the program in Example 2, the four calls to findExitFrom are all missing the first argument, maze.

Page 367

In Example 2, add a semi-colon after the closing brace bracket.

Page 398

In Question 1 of Exercises 10.6, change "Example 2" to "Example 1".

Page 399

In the first sentence of Section 10.7, change "often more" to "often require more".

Page 432

Four lines from the bottom of the page, change e+an to e+nn.

Page 437

In the second last line of the table in Example 8, change &j to &li.

Page 458

The answer to Section 1.8, Question 1(b) should be: Height is 2.500000 m.

Page 459

The second line of the answer to Section 1.8, Question 1(c) should be: y -> 27.374000.

Page 460

In the answer to Exercises 2.5, Question 3(d), the value of d should be (int)'8'

Page 464

In the answer to Exercises 5.10, Question 2, change "vale" to "value".

Errors that Appear in only the First Printing of the First Edition

Page 16

In the last line, change - 1 to + 1.

Page 32

In Question 2(c) of Exercises 1.7, change 2.73e1 to 2.73e0.

Page 39

In Example 11, in the scanf statements that read the initials, change "%c" to "%c\n"
The \n causes C to skip over the character produced by the user pressing the enter key after typing an initial.

Page 56

In the last line on the page, change m%n to m/n.

Page 228

In Question 2, the array declaration should have the form int sample[SIZE]

Page 230

About half way down the page, delete the phrase "and the difference is not negative".

Page 234

The formula on the third line, although it is correct, may be misleading. It should be interpreted as a mathematical formula, not a C statement.

Page 269

In Example 3, change argv[4] = NULL to argv[3] = NULL, change argv[3] = "Hong" to argv[2] = "Hong", and change argv[4] = "Kong" to "argv[3] = "Kong".

Page 270

In Question 1, change char argc to int argc.
Change Question 1(a) to: Write a function avLength with parameters argc and argv that returns the average length of the program's command line arguments.
Change Question 1(b) to: Write a function first with parameters argc and argv that returns a pointer to the string that would appear first if the strings of argv were placed in lexicogrphic order.
In Question 2, change char argc to int argc.

Page 277

Delete the entire paragraph starting with the phrase "The StringTokenizer class".

Pages 388-9

In Example 2, after a deletion, the memory allocated to the deleted node should be freed. This also requires the addition of a pair of brace brackets as shown here:

if (found)
{
  if (current == *headPointer)
    *headPointer = current->link;
  else
    previous->link = current-> link;
  free(current);
}

Page 403

In the second line from the top of the page, change TreeNodePointer to NodePointer.

Page 407

In Example 2, change (*rootPointer)->lChild to &((*rootPointer)->lChild) and change (*rootPointer)->rChild to &((*rootPointer)->rChild)

Page 448

In the third line of the first section of the table, change {} to [].

Page 460

The answer to Section 2.2, Question 1(c) should be: Illegal - no % with floating point.

New Errors

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Thanks.