I have an assignment to reverse the sequence of coins in a purse. I cannot use any methods from the Collections or Arrays Class. I have the following code but have no idea what to do from here to get the purse contents to reverse.

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class Purse
{
	public Purse()
	{
		coins = new ArrayList<String>();
	}
	
	public void addCoin(String coinName)
	{
		coins.add(coinName);
	}
	
	public String toString()
	{
		return coins.reverse();
	}
	
	public void reverse()
	{  
		for (int j=0; j < coins.size(); j++)
		{

		} 

	}
	private ArrayList<String> coins;

}
public class PurseTester
{
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		Purse p = new Purse();
		p.addCoin("Quarter");
		p.addCoin("Dime");
		p.addCoin("Nickel");
		p.addCoin("Dime");
		
		System.out.println("Original purse: " + p.toString());
		System.out.println("Expected: Purse[Quarter,Dime,Nickel,Dime]");
		p.reverse();
		System.out.println("Reversed purse: " + p.toString());
		System.out.println("Expected: Purse[Dime,Nickel,Dime,Quarter]");;
		
	}
}

You have already done it correctly (without any help I believe & congrate) in the other post, so you should mark this post as solved. :)

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