Java™ How to Program, Seventh Edition

17. Data Structures

Much that I bound, I could not free;

Much that I freed returned to me.

—Lee Wilson Dodd

‘Will you walk a little faster?’ said a whiting to a snail,

‘There’s a porpoise close behind us, and he’s treading on my tail.’

—Lewis Carroll

There is always room at the top.

—Daniel Webster

Push on—keep moving.

—Thomas Morton

I’ll turn over a new leaf.

—Miguel de Cervantes

Objectives

In this chapter you will learn: To form linked data structures using references, self-referential classes and recursion. The type-wrapper classes that enable programs to process primitive data values as objects. To use autoboxing to convert a primitive ...