Clarifications (Project #3)

• Project 3: Using WordCountApplet
  
  Note that the default WordCountApplet code uses TreeMap from the Java Collections Framework. To test your SearchTreeMap code instead, you need to add "import searchTree.*;" to the list of imports, and change occurrences of "TreeMap" to "SearchTreeMap".

• Project 3: Using min( ) / max( )
  
  Note that when you use min( ), you are allowed to check whether the result is null (implying the tree is empty). Ditto for max( ).

  
  What you are not allowed to do is simply use if (min( ) == null) as a test to see whether a tree is empty. Same goes for max( ), size( ) == 0, etc.

  
  The difference is in whether you actually use the minimum value for something productive, as opposed to just throwing it away since all you cared about was whether it was null or not.