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BJP4 Exercise 16.20: shift

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Author: Whitaker Brand (on 2016/09/08)

Write a method shift that rearranges the elements of a list of integers by moving to the end of the list all values that are in odd-numbered positions and otherwise preserving list order. For example, suppose a variable list stores the following values: 

[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]

The call of list.shift(); should rearrange the list to be: 

[0, 2, 4, 6, 1, 3, 5, 7]

In this example the values in the original list were equal to their positions and there were an even number of elements, but that won't necessarily be the case. For example, if list had instead stored the following: 

[4, 17, 29, 3, 8, 2, 28, 5, 7]

Then after the call list.shift(); the list would store: 

[4, 29, 8, 28, 7, 17, 3, 2, 5]

Notice that it doesn't matter whether the value itself is odd or even. What matters is whether the value appears in an odd index (index 1, 3, 5, etc). Also notice that the original order of the list is otherwise preserved. You may not construct any new nodes and you may not use any auxiliary data structure to solve this problem (no array, ArrayList, stack, queue, String, etc). You also may not change any data fields of the nodes; you must solve this problem by rearranging the links of the list.

Assume that you are adding this method to the LinkedIntList class as defined below: 

public class LinkedIntList {
    private ListNode front;   // null for an empty list
    ...
}
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This is a partial class problem. Submit code that will become part of an existing Java class as described. You do not need to write the complete class, just the portion described in the problem.

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