Errata for OCP: Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 8 Programmer II Study Guide - page 473

[Guillaume Bailly]

Hi,

At the end of the section Making Directories with createDirectory() and createDirectories() on page 473, I read:

...such as /bison, /bison/field, or /bison/pasture

I think it should be the following:

...such as /bison, /bison/field, or /bison/field/pasture

Regards,
Guillaume

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Confirmed and logged. Good attention to detail!

[Dave Martino]

Didn’t want to start a new thread for this, and not sure it's really a “mistake” per se, but maybe worded a bit confusingly.

Page 473 for the "Making Directories with createDirectory() and createDirectories()" section, second paragraph:



“The directory-creation methods can throw the checked IOException, such as when the directory cannot be created or already exists”



In fact, if the directory already exists, only createDirectory() will throw an exception.  createDirectories() will not throw the exception in this situation.  It still does, of course, throw an IOException for other situations.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Dave,
Welcome to CodeRanch!

Thanks for reporting that. I logged it on the private list Scott and I maintain of "things that could be clearer" so we can word that another way in our OCP 11 book!