On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 07:11:05AM +0000, Randy Dawson via cctalk wrote: [...] The errors in the code will not be yours. You will learn more by throwing everything written by Herbert Schildt into the recycling and getting some decent books written by somebody who isn't a Dunning-Kruger case. I occasionaly hear him referred to as "Herbert Shit". His books have negative value, except perhaps as firelighters. Here are a couple of critiques of some of his other works which do not pull their punches: http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/schildt.html https://www.seebs.net/c/c_tcn4e.html