The list below contains corrections to edition 2 of ProgramLive, which was produced in June 2001.
 

Glossary

1. Item "Lesson". It refers to Lesson 1-1; it should be Lesson 0-1.
2. Item "try-statement". The description of a catch-clause is wrong. It should be:

catch ( <parameter declaration> ) <catch-block>

where the type of the parameter is (a subclass of) class Throwable.

1. Activity 1-3-6 says that "4.0, 10.0, and 2.1 are not integers. Instead, they are constants of primitive type float, not int." This is wrong; they are constants of type double.

Lesson 3, Classes

Lesson 4, Subclasses and inheritance

1. Lab PGL-3 (Drawing frames II). Method proc should not be in the objects of class C that appear in this lab because method proc is static. Also, in step 2, sentence "This should cause you to execute ...", the call that will be executed is D(cvar.d, 3), not D(cvar.a, 3).

Lesson 5, Some useful classses

1. Activity 5-7-5, Reading a file. The first statement that appears in the monitor window, to create BufferedReader fr, is incorrect. The correct statement does appear in the exposition text.

Lesson 7, Loops
 
 

Lesson 8, Arrays

1. Activity 8-2-2, Picturing array segments. In the Windows (not the Macintosh) version, there is a missing right boundary for the segment b[i..i] slightly more than halfway through the activity, when the reader says, "As a final example, ...".
2. Activity 8-3-2, footnote. The third schema should not have int after for.
3. Activity 8-5-2, Another version of linear search. This is not a mistake but an extension. We could show the following for-loop version:

int i;
// {inv P: (1) h <= i <= k and (2) x not in b[h..i-1]}
for (i = h;  i != k && x != b[i];  i++) ; //empty body!
return i;

4. Activity 8-5-5, Merging two sorted array segments. Class UpdatingArrays was mistakenly placed in file UpdateArray.java; it won't compile properly until the file name is changed.

 

Lesson 9, Multidimensional arrays
 
 

Lesson 10, Exception handling
 
 

Lesson 11, Packages
 
 

Lesson 12, Interfaces

1. Lesson page 12-3. Throughout, it says that the parameter of method compareTo should be of type Comparable; it should be of type Object, in order to be compatible with interface java.util.Comparable.
2. Activity 12-3.2, Casting between Pixel and Comparable. The speaker's voice is cut off too soon at the first pause.

Lesson 13, Programming style

Lesson 14, Testing and debugging

Lesson 15, Recursion

1. Activity 15-4-1. The exposition text is missing a call on method partition in two places; the exposition itself is correct.

Lesson 16, Applets,

Lesson 17, GUIs and event-driven programming

Lesson 18, The CodeWarrior IDE for Java

1. Lesson page 18-1, CodeWarrior for Java, the penultimate footenote on downloading the API specs, just before section "For Macintosh users". Change the parenthesized phrase to: (and a computer with a big hard disk).
2. Activity 18-7-1, Setting, removing, and using breakpoints. The variables pane is not updated correctly when stepping into function f. Also, on return from the first call, the program-counter arrow is a the wrong place.