The Purse
class allows for the management of a collection of coins. The names of the coins in the purse will be kept in an ArrayList<String>
. This first version of the Purse
class includes a constructor which creates an empty purse object, the mutator method addCoin(String newCoin)
which adds a coin to the purse, and a toString()
method that returns a string displaying the contents of the purse in the format
Purse[Quarter,Dime,Nickel,Dime]
Add to the Purse
class the mutator method reverse()
which reverses the sequence of coins in a purse. For example, if reverse()
is called with a purse
Purse[Quarter,Dime,Nickel,Dime]
the purse will now be:
Purse[Dime,Nickel,Dime,Quarter]
Add a method to the Purse class
transfer(Purse other)
that transfers the contents of one purse to another. For example, if myPurse
is
Purse[Quarter,Dime,Nickel,Dime]
and yourPurse is
Purse[Dime,Nickel]
then after the call myPurse.transfer(yourPurse)
, myPurse
is
Purse[Quarter,Dime,Nickel,Dime,Dime,Nickel]
and yourPurse
is empty.
Write a boolean method for the Purse class
sameOrder(Purse other)
that checks whether the other purse has the same coins, in the same order, as this one.
Write a boolean method for the Purse class
sameCoins(Purse other)
that checks whether the other purse has the same coins, perhaps in a different order. For example, the purses
Purse[Quarter,Dime,Nickel,Dime]
and
Purse[Nickel,Dime,Dime,Quarter]
should be considered equal. You may wish to write a helper methods or two to assist in analyzing this situation.