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Questions and Exercises: Implementations

### Questions

> 1. You plan to write a program that uses several basic collection interfaces: `Set`, `List`, `Queue`, and `Map`. You're not sure which implementations will work best, so you decide to use general-purpose implementations until you get a better idea how your program will work in the real world. Which implementations are these?

> 2. If you need a `Set` implementation that provides value-ordered iteration, which class should you use?

> 3. Which class do you use to access wrapper implementations?

### Exercises

> 1. Write a program that reads a text file, specified by the first command line argument, into a `List`. The program should then print random lines from the file, the number of lines printed to be specified by the second command line argument. Write the program so that a correctly-sized collection is allocated all at once, instead of being gradually expanded as the file is read in. Hint: To determine the number of lines in the file, use `java.io.File.length` to obtain the size of the file, then divide by an assumed size of an average line.

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