Errata

"Even crosswords puzzles are imporant??they'll help get the concepts into your brain the way you'll see them on the PMP exam."

PMP exam in an iPhone programming book?

Note from the Author or Editor:
remove "the way you'll see them on the PMP exam"

"it's glorious gotchas" should be "its glorious gotchas" (i.e. no apostrophe in "it's")

Note from the Author or Editor:
Change the "it's" to "its"

In item 9, "Create something!", some text sounds like it came from the PMP book, as it talks about projects and the exam.

Apply this to your daily work; use what you are
learning to make decisions on your projects.

a problem that might benefit from using the tools and techniques
you?re studying for the exam.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Remove item #9 from this page.

"castor" is beaver or star, and should be "caster".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caster says:
"A caster (or castor) is an undriven, single, double, or compound wheel mounted on an object to make movement easier. ..."

Note from the Author or Editor:
Change "castor" to "caster" on p. xix and p. 487

The last sentence of the paragraph "Apple provides the software and we'll help you the knowledge;..."

Seems like there is a word missing after "you" like maybe 'get' or 'with'. Either way it doesn't sound right.

Thanks for the great publication!

Marc

Note from the Author or Editor:
Change the sentence to read "Apple provides the software and we'll help you with the knowledge;..."

"Since the File?s Owner is set up to be our
iDecideViewController, Interface Builder
could look at the iDecideViewController
header and see we had an IBOutlet named
descriptionText and an IBAction named
button pressed."

In the above sentence, the IBOutlet variable in the code is named decisionText, not descriptionText.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Change the reference in the answer to the first question from "descriptionText" to "decisionText"

Isn't the name of the IDE for iPhone apps "XCode"?

Perhaps the clue should be: The name of the tool for building graphical iPhone user interfaces? [or similar]

Note from the Author or Editor:
Change the clue for number 12 to "The name of the tool for building iPhone UIs"

There is an inconsistency with the quiz on page 61 and the answers on page 62.

The first item in the left column on page 61 is "Directions for drawing the view for the items"

In the answer key on page 62 the same item says "Directions for drawing the rectangles for the items"

Note from the Author or Editor:
Change the first item in the "Picker Characteristic" column from "Directions for drawing the rectangles" to match p. 61 and read "Directions for drawing the view for the items"

the line of code that begins with:
pickerViewnumberofRowsInComponent

There should be a space before numberOfRows, i.e.:

pickerView numberOfRowsInComponent

Code will compile and run but expected result will not be achieved.

IBOutlet UIPickerView *tweetPicker; is not indented consistently with the other declarations within the graphic.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Indent the "IBOutlet UIPickerView *tweetPicker;" line of code with the other lines of code.

dictionary is misspelled as dicionary

Note from the Author or Editor:
please change the word "dicionary" to "dictionary" (approx 1/2 way down the page on the left hand side).

command on the linthat's already there.

should be

command on the line that's already there.

Note from the Author or Editor:
chnage "linthat's" to "line that's"

release it if you ant to use it later.

should be

release it if you want to use it later.

Note from the Author or Editor:
chnage "ant" to "want"

"used, peak memory usage, how fast your"

should be

"....how fast you are" OR "....how fast you're"

Note from the Author or Editor:
change "used, peak memory usage, how fast your" to "you're"

The Test Drive on pg. 127, using the code from pg. 126, should produce 2 periods at the end of the first sentence of the Tweet?one from the user input, one from the pattern.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Change the input for the custom text field on p. 127 from "Renee is so awesome." to remove the period.

In several spots in book you refer to getting files from "http://www.headfirstlabs/iphonedev"

I tried this several times -- it is wrong. The correct site should be www.headfirstlabs.com/iphone dev -- you need the .com in the addresses in the book!!!

Note from the Author or Editor:
All mentions of the website should be "http://www.headfirstlabs.com/iphonedev

The sentence "In general, you'll have a FEW defined in a nib...". I believe it should be a VIEW defined in a nib.

Note from the Author or Editor:
change "few" to "view" in the second sentence of the first answer.

"DrinkDirections.plist" should be "DrinksDirections.plist"

Note from the Author or Editor:
Update screenshot with the proper file name.

The directions say to download "DrinksDirections.plst". The correct file name is "DrinksDirections.plist".

Note from the Author or Editor:
Update page 173 directions to say "DrinksDirections.plist"

The first sentece looks like "Some common warning culprits:."

The dot at the end has to be removed.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Remove the "." at the end of the first sentence inside the "Geek Bits"

Screenshot contains the text "DrinkDirections" which should be "DrinksDirections"

Note from the Author or Editor:
Update screenshot with the proper file name.

The answer for 5 Down of this crossword should be "NSSTRING" rather than "NSSRING" (and therefore the puzzle needs another square for the missing letter, on both page 182 and page 184).

Note from the Author or Editor:
The crossword needs to be updated to change the answer to NSSTRING - so both crossword forge files will need to be updated to add a square.

@interface RootViewController : UITableViewController {
NSMutableArray *drinks;
IBOutlet UIBarButtonItem *addButtonItem;
}
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSArray *drinks;
@property (nonatomic, retain) UIBarButtonItem *addButtonItem;
- (IBAction) addButtonPressed: (id) sender; @end
---------------------------------------------------------
drinks is first defined as NSMutableArray on PG 144 but here when @property is defined its defined as NSArray and not NSMutableArray.

Change NSArray to NSMutableArray in the @property definition to match PG 144.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Change NSArray to NSMutableArray in the @property definition to match PG 144 in code snippet for item #2.

"So when we create an AddDrinkDetailViewController, it will ask its superclass, the DetailDrinkViewController, to load the DetailDrinkViewController.xib"

The two instances of "DetailDrinkViewController" above should be "DrinkDetailViewController".

Note from the Author or Editor:
Change both instances of "DetailDrinkViewController" to "DrinkDetailViewController"

In two spots, this typo should be fixed:

DetailedDrinkViewController should be DrinkDetailViewController

Note from the Author or Editor:
Replace "DetailedDrinkViewController" with "DrinkDetailViewController"

At the bottom of the "Sharpen your pencil" section there is a sentence that reads; "The AddDetailViewController.m file can stay exactly as it is generated by Xcode." AddDetailViewContoller.m should be AddDrinkViewController.m

Note from the Author or Editor:
Change the reference of "AddDetailViewController.m" to "AddDrinkViewController.m"

The cursive callout text refers to "DetailedDrinkViewController" when it should be "DrinkDetailViewController"

?just like the DetailedDrinkViewController?
should read
?just like the DrinkDetailViewController?

No big deal but it made me panic and go back through all the code thinking i had used the wrong name!
(P.S. This is my first Head First book and I'am loving the presentation and writing style)

Note from the Author or Editor:
Change "DetailedDrinkViewController" to "DrinkDetailViewController" in the annotation at the top of the page.

Answer to 3-down is given as 'Indentifier'. That's not even a word. The further I get into this book, the more frustrating (and time-consuming) its typos are.

Note from the Author or Editor:
The word should be "identifier" this crossword puzzle will need to be regenerated.

Final block of code displays [nameField release] when the code as referenced in earlier examples calls for [nameTextField release]

Note from the Author or Editor:
Fix the un-bolded code in the bottom right corner of the page. Change [nameField release]; to [nameTextField release]

The code should be in the AddDrinkViewController.m but the title shows AddDrinkViewController.h (the small graphic shows ".m" which is correct.

Note from the Author or Editor:
change the caption text underneath the first code snippet to "Add DrinkViewController.m", not .h.

Extraneous characters "the" (right before setObjectForKey:) in the sentence "We can set the drink on the dictionary using thesetObjectForKey:."

Note from the Author or Editor:
remove "the" at the beginning of "thesetObjectForKey:"

I'm not sure if the errata for the penciled note above the 2nd code snippet that reads "Don't forget to declare this in RootViewController.h, too" is correct. Everything on the page relates to IMPLEMENTATION, which should happen in RootViewController.m (as shown by the icon at the top right). However, you must also DECLARE any new methods you IMPLEMENT. The penciled note should read something like:

Don't forget, we're *implementing* a new method here in RootViewController.m so we also need to *declare* this new method in RootViewController.h

Essentially you just copy the first line of the method implementation (minus the left brace):

- (void)applicationWillTerminate: (NSNotification *)notification

to the RootViewController.h file, which is what the penciled note is trying to get at.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Change the second annotation on the page "Don't forget..." to

"Implement this code in RootViewController.m and you'll also need to declare the method in RootViewController.h"

Sentence as printed starts, "Any objects you want to load an save" but the "an" should be "and".

Note from the Author or Editor:
change the "an" to "and" in this sentence: "Any objects you want to load an save"

"...delete those the view controllers..." - something in that fragment is missing or extra

Note from the Author or Editor:
change to "delete those view controllers"

"What other types of persistance does..."

The 'a' in persistance should be an 'e'.

It's spelled correctly in the answer.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Change "What other types of persistance does Core Data support?" to "persistence"

Second para reads:
"code needs to go into viewWillAppear in FugitiveViewController.m"
There is no FugitiveViewController - text should read
"code needs to go into viewWillAppear in FugitiveListViewController.m"

Sharpen your pencil, point 1 text:
"Create an array in the FugitiveViewController called"
should read
"Create an array in the FugitiveListViewController called"

Sharpen your pencil, point 2 heading:
"Import the appropriate headers into FugitiveViewController.m."
should read
"Import the appropriate headers into FugitiveListViewController.m."

Note from the Author or Editor:
Change all references from "FugitiveViewController.m" to "FugitiveListViewController.m"

"Import the appropriate headers into FugitiveViewController.m."
should be
"Import the appropriate headers into FugitiveListViewController.m."

Note from the Author or Editor:
Change reference from "FugitiveViewController.m" to "FugitiveListViewController.m"

On line starting with "UITableViewCell *cell = " the Table Cell Magnet obscures the opening left brace [.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Shift the magnet slightly to the right.

One of the magnets shown says 'x == 0'. Should be '== 0' (without the 'x').

Ramon M. Gallart

Note from the Author or Editor:
Change the magnet at the bottom of p. 401 to be "== 0" (remove the x and the extra close paren). The code on p. 402 is correct.