Help with List/Map java Problems please!

[gazgump]

I'm doing some practice questions and cant seem to work out these collection probelms think i need to use iterator or a while loop but cant seem to get them to work - dont really know how i'd go about getting the highest value in the collection any help would be appreciated, even just learning from the answers would be a lot of help.. cheers - see below

[1] Given a list of integers and an integer variable declared like this:
List<Integer> list;
int max;

and assuming that some values have been added to the list, write a loop which finds the largest value in list and stores it in max.


[2] A bank account is stored as a Map which maps the names of the account holders to a value representing the current balance of their account:
Map<String,Inte ger> bank;

Given a String variable declared like this:
String rich = null;

write a loop which will store the name of the person with the most money in their account in rich.


[3] Using the same bank account as in the previous question, and a list of strings:
Map<String,Inte ger> bank;
List<String> names;

write a loop which fills the list names with the names of all account holders whose accounts are overdrawn, i.e. the balance of their account is less than zero.

[Laharl]

We're not just going to give you the answers. That said, useful things to look at are ListIterator and Iterator , as well as the listIterator() and iterator() methods of the various collection classes.

As for getting the maximum, do it with a simple array on paper first, then translate your logic to code.

[BigDaddyLH]

Those seem like easy questions. Do you have specific questions about them? You should post your code and ask specific questions about it. Have you read Sun's Collection Tutorial? http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutor...ons/index.html

[gazgump]

I am just starting to look at java code so i appreciate the link and help, this is what i've come up with for the first two but they dont compile -

1.

public void getmax() {
       for (ListIterator<Integer> it = list.listIterator(list.size());
     it.hasPrevious(); ) {
    Integer max = it.previous();
    if(list.get(x) > it.previous());
    x = max;
 
}
}
 

2.

public void setrich() {
        Iterator it = bank.keySet().iterator();
        System.out.println(bank);
        while (it.hasNext()) {
           Object key = it.next();
           if(bank.get(x) > it.previous()); 
               x = rich;
        }
    }

[BigDaddyLH]

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[BigDaddyLH]

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