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Errata The following errors have been found in the first printing of Fluency with Information Technology. Updated October 6, 2003. Chapter 1. p. 15, l. 8: "(See Figure 9.9 in Chapter 9 for a list of prefixes)" references the wrong figure. The correct figure is 9.11. p. 27. l. 15: Short Answer question 1 is out of place. The answer (digerati) is given in the next chapter. Chapter 2. p. 49, l. 13, 15. The effect of the tab is inaccurately displayed. "Capulet's..." should move left and "He jests..." should move right so that the "C" and the "H" align. Also, the bracket before Juliet should not be italics. p. 52, l. 5. Figure 27 is missing.
Chapter 3. p. 74, Figure 3.6. Mislabeled icon. The right hand side computer should be labeled "Destination Computer"
p. 81, Figure 3.9. Missing
p. 82. l. -10. Space problem. The path name should be Chapter 4. p. 118, l. -19. Problem 5 should read as follows: Treat your birthday (mm dd yy) as three hexadecimal numbers, and then determine what color it is. Chapter 6. p. 176. l. 6-14. Vinton Cerf's Interview. The second paragraph on this page should move to the end of the interview. Chapter 7. p. 179, l. -7. Five should be changed to six. p. 192, l -7. The spacing change between Figures 7.6 and 7.7 referred to in this sentence is not visible in the browser's presentation of these versions of the page. Chapter 8. p. 207, l. -2. Superscript as a subscript. The pn should be pn. p 220, Figure 8.7: The ASCII table has two "0010" entries in the top heading. The second should be "0011".
p. 231, l.7. Problem 5. The symbols should be: Chapter 9. p. 239, unnumbered figure. The address on the envelope should be: Nenana Ice Classic, Nenana AK
p. 261, l. -1. Wrong opcode. The p. 265, l. 2-5. Misspelled prefix. Terra should be spelled tera. p. 266, l. 3. Wrong unit in Problem 4. Replace second with cycle. Chapter 10. p. 276, Figure 10.2 Step 8 of the algorithm is incorrect. The Alpha arrow should point to Beethoven, and the Beta arrow should point to Wynette, Tammy. Also, in step 12, the Instruction is not 4, but 6. p. 282, Illustration of Beta Sweep. The horizontal Beta Sweep arrow should begin one position left, i.e. it should include the cell labeled Beta. p. 286-7, Exercises 7-9. References to "Exchange Sort" should be replaced by "Alphabetize CDs." Chapter 11. p. 294, Figure 11.4: There are two boxes labeled "5". The second (bottom right) should be labeled "6". Also, there should be an arrow from box 4 to box 6. p. 295, Figure 11.6. The explanation for the second number(16) should read "binary representing decimal number 16." p. 308, Great FIT Moments. Delete "however" from the first line. In the next to last line replace Science with Technology.
p. 311, Figure 11.12. The ASCII encoding (fourth equality) should be " Chapter 13. p. 356, Figure 13.3, part (a). "picture" should be "image".
p. 356, Figure 13.3, part (c). The heading on the table should be:
p. 358, l. 4. "
p. 361, l. -6. "query" should be replaced by " p. 365, l. 20. "concatenated" should be "appended." Chapter 14.
p. 386, first Select operation. " Chapter 15.
p. 412, second From clause. " Chapter 17. p. 464, l. 1. "it" should be followed by a closed parenthesis, as in "it)." p. 469, Figure 17.2. The middle arrow should be labeled, "ESR(T)=C" and "Cleartext(T)" should be replaced by "Cleartext T" p. 470, second inline XOR computation should read:
Chapter 18. p. 517, Multiple choice question 8. The correct answer, assignment statement is not listed. Chapter 19. p. 525, Figure 19.3. The caption should read, "The Web interface for ..." Chapter 22. p. 632, Multiple choice question 8. The question should read, "To get the browser 5 seconds, ..." Chapter 23. p. 652, l. 1. Replace "see if a pair of CDs is possibly out of" with "put the CDs in". p. 652, l. 4 of Work Proportional to n Section. The equation should be (n+1)n/2 = n2 + n)/2p. 677, Image entry. Delete the </img> tag, there is no such tag.
Appendix B. p. 682, Array References entry. The syntax specification should be <array_name>[<index>]p. 686, Table B.3. Two entries are difficult to understand. The concatenation entry specifies that if the operator is given one numeric operand and one string operand, it converts the numeric operand to a string and concatenates, as in 6 + " pack"
The decrement entry is difficult to read ... there are two minus signs shown as in Glossary. p. 705, RAM entry. The entry should end with the "... random access memory, pronounced"
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