Introduction to Programming Using Java, Eighth Edition
News and Errata
- November 20, 2018 — The official release of the Eighth Edition. Once again, I am
indebted to John Ganci, who contributed many corrections to the "beta" version of this edition.
- August 19, 2018 — A "final beta" version of the Eighth Edition is available for
browsing on the web and for download.
The official release of the Eighth Edition will take place some time after Java 11 is released.
Old News
- May 16, 2018 -- I have posted Version 7.0.3, with just a very few corrections compared to
7.0.2. This is the last update to the seventh edition, and I have begun work on the eighth edition.
- November 25, 2017 -- My CPSC 124 web site
includes programming assignments as well as tests and quizzes from the current version of my Introductory
Programming course. The Spring '17 version
is also available.
- December 20, 2016 -- Version 7.0.2 is released, a minor upgrade from Version 7.0,
with a number of mostly typographical corrections beyond those in Version 7.0.1. Thanks are due to readers who
emailed me with corrections, especially John Ganci, who is responsible for many of the corrections in this version.
I expect this to be the final release of the seventh edition of this book. Substantive changes from Version 7.0
are noted below. Older news can be found
below the list of errors.
- December 16, 2016 -- I have just finished teaching an intermediate programming
course based on Chapters 8 through 13 of this book. The web site,
http://math.hws.edu/eck/cs225/index_f16.html,
includes a set of programming assignments that were used in the course.
- March 19, 2016 -- I have added eBook versions of this textbook to the web site, in
"epub" format and in "mobi" format for Kindle. They can be downloaded using links at the
bottom of the front page. Note that there can be problems with
the rendering of long lines in code samples, and that the problems will be worse on some
devices. The eBook versions should be considered somewhat experimental.
In addition to adding the eBooks, a very small number
of errors (about a half dozen) have been fixed in the on-line and PDF versions, without
changing the version number.
- August 1, 2015 -- Version 7.0.1 is released. This is a very minor upgrade
of the original version 7, with a small number of corrections.
- August 1, 2014 -- Version 7 is released. Version 7 requires Java 7 or later.
Note that with this version, the book no longer cover applets, and there are no applets
in the on-line version. Readers are encouraged to download, compile, and run the examples.
Links for downloading are available on the front page.
- May, 2014 -- Labs from my intro programming course for Spring 2014 are on the
course web page at http://math.hws.edu/eck/cs124.
The labs from Spring 2013
are also still available.
- January 4, 2014 -- Version 6.0.3 is released, with more small error fixes (many, once again,
from Mark Cristy). I have also added, experimentally, EPUB and MOBI ebook versions of the text, available among
the download links at the bottom of the index page.
- May 17, 2013 -- Version 6.0.2 is released, with fixes for many small, mostly typographical
errors. Again, thanks to readers who sent in error reports, especially Mark Christy and
John Ganci, who found many errors.
- May 17, 2013 -- The labs for my latest version of Introductory Programming
are now on line at http://math.hws.edu/eck/cs124,
with a number of new labs for this version of the course. (By the way, labs for older versions of
the course -- such as those from
Fall 2011,
Fall 2009, and
Spring 2006 --
are still available.)
- July 25, 2012 -- Version 6.0.1 is released. This is a very minor upgrade,
fixing about 75 typographical errors and 3 small errors in sample program code. (The
worst error was a reversal of the parameters data and newdata in a call
to System.arraycopy() in Section 7.4.2.) The printed versions at lulu.com have
not been updated. Thanks to readers who sent in error reports!
- July 24, 2012 -- Note: The web sites for the two-course
sequence that I teach from this book (http://math.hws.edu/eck/cs124
and http://math.hws.edu/eck/cs225)
now contain the 2011--2012 version of those courses, including a number of labs that were
new this year.
- July 18, 2011 -- The applet in Exercise 3.7 was broken. It has been fixed
(without changing the book's version number).
- June 1, 2011 -- Version 6.0 is released. The sixth edition adds a new
chapter on threads and multiprocessing and some coverage of new features of Java 6
and Java 7. Thanks to many readers who wrote with suggestions and error reports,
especially to Jeff Wexler who sent a large numbers of corrections.
- May 15, 2010 -- I have finished teaching CPSC 225: Intermediate Programming,
based on the Chapters 8 through 13 of this book. The web site for that course can be
found at http://math.hws.edu/eck/cs225.
Also available is http://math.hws.edu/eck/cs124,
the web site for a course based on Chapters 1 through 7. I will be teaching CS124 again this
Fall at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.