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evensBeforeOdds

Language/Type: Java collections Deque
Author: Sara Piccirilli (on 2013/01/29)

Write a method named evensBeforeOdds that accepts a List of integers as a parameter and modifies its contents so that all elements with even values occur before all elements with odd values. The relative ordering of the evens should be the reverse of what it was in the original list. Use a single Deque as auxiliary storage to help you. For example, if passed the list [2, 5, 3, 4, 7, 10, 9, 8], your method might change the list to [8, 10, 4, 2, 5, 3, 7, 9]. This method should run in O(N) time for a list of N elements.

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This is a method problem. Write a Java method as described. Do not write a complete program or class; just the method(s) above.

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