I have no idea why i have error Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException - linked-list

Question

I tried to use reverseBystack, reverseBylink and remove.. but I don't know why when i use these functions, it has error like this.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at LinkedQueue$Node.access$200(LinkedQueue.java:44)
at LinkedQueue.reverseBylink(LinkedQueue.java:185)
at LinkedQueue.main(LinkedQueue.java:238)
void reverseByStack() - This method reverses the order of the items in the linked list (first
becomes last and last becomes first) using a stack data strucenter code hereture`
• void reverseByLinks() - This method also reverses the order of the items in the linked list.
It should not create a new list or use a stack. It should only reverse the order of the nodes by
modifying the next values for each node in the list.
• int remove(Item item) - This method scans the queue for occurrences of item and removes
them from the queue. It returns the number of items deleted from the queue.
these are what i want to make.
enter code here public class LinkedQueue<Item> implements Iterable<Item> {
private int N; // number of elements on queue
private Node first; // beginning of queue
private Node last; // end of queue
// helper linked list class
private class Node {
private Item item;
private Node next;
}
public LinkedQueue() {
first = null;
last = null;
N = 0;
assert check();
}
public boolean isEmpty() {
return first == null;
}
public int size() {
return N;
}
public Item peek() {
if (isEmpty()) throw new NoSuchElementException("Queue
underflow");
return first.item;
}
public void enqueue(Item item) {
Node oldlast = last;
last = new Node();
last.item = item;
last.next = null;
if (isEmpty()) first = last;
else oldlast.next = last;
N++;
assert check();
}
public Item dequeue() {
if (isEmpty()) throw new NoSuchElementException("Queue
underflow");
Item item = first.item;
first = first.next;
N--;
if (isEmpty()) last = null; // to avoid loitering
assert check();
return item;
}
public String toString() {
StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder();
for (Item item : this)
s.append(item + " ");
return s.toString();
}
private boolean check() {
if (N == 0) {
if (first != null) return false;
if (last != null) return false;
}
else if (N == 1) {
if (first == null || last == null) return false;
if (first != last) return false;
if (first.next != null) return false;
}
else {
if (first == last) return false;
if (first.next == null) return false;
if (last.next != null) return false;
// check internal consistency of instance variable N
int numberOfNodes = 0;
for (Node x = first; x != null; x = x.next) {
numberOfNodes++;
}
if (numberOfNodes != N) return false;
// check internal consistency of instance variable last
Node lastNode = first;
while (lastNode.next != null) {
lastNode = lastNode.next;
}
if (last != lastNode) return false;
}
return true;
}
void reverseBystack(){
Stack<Item> s = new Stack<>();
Item item;
while (s.isEmpty() != true){
item = dequeue();
s.push(item);
}
while(s.isEmpty() != true){
item = s.pop();
enqueue(item);
}
}
void reverseBylink() {
Node prev = null;
Node current = this.first;
Node next = null;
while (current != null) {
next = current.next;
current.next = prev;
prev = current;
current = next;
}
prev.next = current.next;
}
int remove(Item item){
Node cur = first;
Node prev = last;
while(cur != null) {
if(cur.item.equals(item))
System.out.println(cur.item);
}
cur = cur.next;
prev = cur.next;
return 0;
}
public Iterator<Item> iterator() {
return new ListIterator();
}
private class ListIterator implements Iterator<Item> {
private Node current = first;
public boolean hasNext() { return current != null;
}
public void remove() { throw new
UnsupportedOperationException(); }
public Item next() {
if (!hasNext()) throw new NoSuchElementException();
Item item = current.item;
current = current.next;
return item;
}
}
/**
* Unit tests the <tt>LinkedQueue</tt> data type.
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
LinkedQueue<String> q = new LinkedQueue<String>();
while (!StdIn.isEmpty()) {
String item = StdIn.readString();
if (!item.equals("-")) q.reverseBylink();
else if (!q.isEmpty()) StdOut.print(q.dequeue() + " ");
}
StdOut.println("(" + q.size() + " left on queue)");
}
}