No collaboration is allowed on this program assignment. Your program must be an individual and original effort. Except for any situations explicitly identified in this assignment, if any, you may only receive help from your instructor or the tutors provided by the Computer Science Department. See the Syllabus for your section of the course for the significant consequences for disallowed collaboration and/or plagiarism.

Submit the following file(s) on one of the CSL servers using handin as follows:

        File(s): BasicList.java BasicListIterator.java BasicLinkedList.java
        touser: eaugusti
        assignment/subdirectory: 102-program06b

1. You should develop and use your own tests prior to using the provided test driver.

2. Do not use the provided test driver until your solution is complete and you believe it is correct.

3. Using the save-as feature of your browser (or wget/curl if you are a cool kid), not cut-and-paste, save P6bTestDriver.java (to be published on the due date) in the same directory as all of the source files (.java files)

4. Compile the P6bTestDriver.java, all of your source files (.java files) and run P6bTestDriver (see How to Compile and Run From the Command Line, as necessary). Remember that your code will be graded one of the CSL servers so, to avoid unpleasant grading surprises, be sure to test on one of the CSL servers at before handing it in!

1. To understand the implementation details of a doubly linked-list data structure.

2. To understand the implementaion details of iterators on data structures.

3. To appreciate the performance characteristics of a linked list data structure and iterators.

You will be implementing a linked list class that mimics the design of the LinkedList class found in the Java Standard Library. So that you can complete the assignment in a reasonable amout of time you will only be implementing a subset of the functionality found in the standard library version. Note that some of the methods have an O(1) performance requirement (see specifications). You will also be supporting forward and backward iteration via methods by implementing an interface that extends the Iterator<E> interface from the Java Standard Library. To achieve efficient interation both forward and backward you will implement the list as a doubly-linked list. Finally, to support the Java for-each statement, you will implement the Iterable<E> interface from the Java Standard Library.

1. Your source code must meet the Programming/Coding style guidelines required by your instructor.
   

2. Do not suppress any compiler warnings. If you do, your submission may be rejected for grading or your grade marked down at your instructor's descretion.

3. Note that there is an existing LinkedList class in the Java Standard Library - you may not use it or any other data structure from the Java Standard Library in your implementation.

4. Write an interface called BasicListIterator<E> to this specification.

1. Notice that this interface extends java.util.Iterator<E> (yes, an interface can extend another interface).

5. Write an interface called BasicList<E> to this specification. Recall that making this interface generic will affect many of the parameters and return types of the methods specified in the interface.

1. Notice that this interface extends java.lang.Iterable<E>.

2. This interface is a modificaton of the BasicList interface you wrote in Program 2b - you may use your BasicList from that assignment as a starting point if you wish.

5. Write a class called BasicLinkedList<E> to this specification.

1. This class is required to have no more than three instance variables (all of which must be private). This count does not include the instance variable(s) found in the private inner classes you will be writing.
   

2. Some methods have performance requirements - be sure to read the detailed specifications!

3. Do not use the iterators in your solution to the methods of BasicLinkedList. Such a dependency is unnecessary and will make development, testing, and debugging more difficult. I strongly suggest that you implement the iterators after completely and correctly completing all of the prior steps and testing the functionality of your BasicLinkedList thoroughly.

4. You will need to write a private inner class that implements the BasicListIterator interface to support the iterator( ) and basicListIterator( ) methods.

1. Note that the next( ) and previous( ) methods must have O(1) performance. 

2. The remove method specified by java.util.Iterator should be implemented as an unsupported operation as specified in the java.util.Iterator Java Documentation.