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Writing programs that solve the Programming Projects helps to solidify your understanding...

Writing programs that solve the Programming Projects helps to solidify your understanding of the material and demonstrates how the chapter’s concepts are applied. (As noted in the Introduction, qualified instructors may obtain completed solutions to the Programming Projects on the publisher’s Web site.)

Queues are often used to simulate the flow of people, cars, airplanes, transactions, and so on. Write a program that models checkout lines at a supermarket, using the Queue class from the queue, java program (Listing 4.4). Several lines of customers should be displayed; you can use the display() method of Programming Project 4.1. You can add a new customer by pressing a key. You’ll need to determine how the customer will decide which line to join. The checkers will take random amounts of time to process each customer (presumably depending on how many groceries the customer has). Once checked out, the customer is removed from the line. For simplicity, you can simulate the passing of time by pressing a key. Perhaps every keypress indicates the passage of one minute. (Java, of course, has more sophisticated ways to handle time.)

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