The current revision of this book is 3.0. The revision of your copy of the book can be found in the copyright page at the start of the book.

The following issues are known to exist in this edition of the book:

Chapter 4 - Objective-C Data Types

The binary representation of 99 is incorrectly listed as 1010110011. This should be 1100011.

Section 5.3 - Type Casting Objective-C Variables

The text in this section incorrectly states that type casting will round the result to the nearest whole number:

double balance = 100.54;
double interestRate = 5.78;
double result;

result =  (int) balance *  (int) interestRate;

NSLog(@"The result is %f", result);

The above code actually truncates the numbers rather than rounding them (thereby multiplying 100 * 5). The correct code to perform rounding is as follows:

double balance = 100.54;
double interestRate = 5.78;

double result;

result = round(balance) * round(interestRate);

NSLog(@"The result is %f", result);

Section 13.4 - Declaring an Objective-C Class Interface

The following steps were omitted from section 13.4 immediately after Figure 13-1:

"Since we are adding a new class to the project, select the Objective-C class entry before clicking Next. On the subsequent panel, enter BankAccount into the Class field and change the Subclass of menu to NSObject. Click Next, select a location for the new class files and click on Create."

Section 16.5 - Overriding Inherited Methods

The final code example for the main.m file incorrectly imports "SavingsAccount" instead of "SavingsAccount.h". This code example should read:

#import 
#import "BankAccount.h"
#import "SavingsAccount.h"

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{

    @autoreleasepool {
         BankAccount *account1;

        SavingsAccount *account1 = [[SavingsAccount alloc] init];
        [account1 setAccount: 4543455 andBalance: 3010.10];
        [account1 setInterestRate: 0.001];

        float interestEarned = [account1 calculateInterest];

        NSLog (@"Interest earned = %f", interestEarned);

        [account1 displayAccountInfo];


    }
    return 0;
}

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