[dgoo]

After looking up that this exercise has been a problem for several others willing to register and query here - and reading that their issues (now mine too) are unresolved due to a problem on the twitter side of things (with no response by the authors or any representative of Head First) - I want to express that this was a terrible idea for an exercise in a book clearly designated for absolute beginners. I'm surprised that there has been no official response or re-hauled Chapter 3 available on the relevant site. The chapter is broken.

EDIT:: http://pc-cookies.bl...-chapter-3.html

This post has been edited by dgoo: 12 February 2012 - 04:05 PM

[Vibegreen]

I think the only official response you'll get is here: http://forums.oreill...dpost__p__68322

[paulbarry]

I'm sorry to hear that this is continuing to be an issue for some folks.

Just to be clear, as soon as we became aware of this issue (which occurred *after* the book first appeared in print) we posted to this forum and also updated the front page of http://programming.itcarlow.ie - the book's official support website. At the time, David's solution required a bit of extra work, but did indeed solve the issue. Also, our community of readers came up with other suggestions too, which helped, and I note with thanks that you have linked to these - we very much appreciate this.

We'd love to "fix" the chapter once and for all, but until a reprint occurs and/or O'Reilly indicates that such an activity is warranted, we are stuck with what we've got. :-(

I've stated in other entries in this forum that the real point of the Twitter exercise is not to be able to send a message to Twitter (the icing) but to be able to send data into functions as a parameter (the cake). If you get how the data/function/parameter mechanism works, then move on to the next chapter as the learning bit of "the Twitter chapter" is over.

Regards.

--Paul.

[obd-reader]

I want to express that this was a terrible idea for an exercise in a book clearly designated for absolute beginners.
iPhone accessories I'm surprised that there has been no official response or re-hauled Chapter 3 available on the relevant site.