How do you know that the book you have is the first printing. If the copyright page (the page immediately before the table of contents) has
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 2 1 in the middle of the page, then the book is the first printing. If the copyright page has
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 2 in the middle of the page, then the book is the second printing.
Errors in the first printing of the book:
Error 1. Page 45. The output of Program 2.4.9 MNOTable2.sas should be titled "MNO2 table" instead of "MNO3 table".
Error 2. Page 60. In the paragraph immediately after Program 4.1.1 worker.sas, "As explained in Section ??" should be "As explained in Program 2.4.9".
Error 3. Page 61. "Program 4.1.2 workerDataStep2.sas" should be "Program 4.1.2 workerDataStep.sas." In addition, in the paragraph immediately after Program 4.1.2 workerDataStep2.sas, "as in Program ???" should be "as in Program 4.1.2?"
Error 4. Page 120. In the first paragraph Line 3, "As explained in Program ??" should be "As explained in Program 4.9.1".
Errors in both the first printing and the second printing:
Error 5. Page 24. In the first sentence after Section 1.6.3, "operation system" should be "operating system".
Error 6. Page 189. In the last paragraph "However, in the 1-to-1 read to create the table C2...", the third sentence should read "The x value from A overwrites the x value from B."
Error 7. Page 212 Program 10.9.5 line 43 should read "/* ID in P and T */"
These are all the errors found as of 02/26/2021.
Please report any errors to yufeng.guo.actuary@gmail.com