# 0102. Binary Tree Level Order Traversal

<https://leetcode.com/problems/binary-tree-level-order-traversal>

## Description

Given the `root` of a binary tree, return *the level order traversal of its nodes' values*. (i.e., from left to right, level by level).

**Example 1:**

![](https://assets.leetcode.com/uploads/2021/02/19/tree1.jpg)

```
**Input:** root = [3,9,20,null,null,15,7]
**Output:** [[3],[9,20],[15,7]]
```

**Example 2:**

```
**Input:** root = [1]
**Output:** [[1]]
```

**Example 3:**

```
**Input:** root = []
**Output:** []
```

**Constraints:**

* The number of nodes in the tree is in the range `[0, 2000]`.
* `-1000 <= Node.val <= 1000`

## ac1: DFS, preorder traversal

```java
/**
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * public class TreeNode {
 *     int val;
 *     TreeNode left;
 *     TreeNode right;
 *     TreeNode(int x) { val = x; }
 * }
 */
class Solution {
    public List<List<Integer>> levelOrder(TreeNode root) {
        List<List<Integer>> res = new ArrayList<List<Integer>>();
        helper(root, res, 0);
        return res;
    }

    private void helper(TreeNode root, List<List<Integer>> res, int level) {
        if (root == null) return;

        if (res.size() <= level) res.add(new ArrayList<Integer>());

        res.get(level).add(root.val);

        helper(root.left, res, level + 1);
        helper(root.right, res, level + 1);
    }
}
```

## ac2: BFS, queue

* LinkedList instantiate queue: `Queue<TreeNode> q = new LinkedList<TreeNode>();`
* `int levelNum = q.size();` this technique is pretty smart.

```java
/**
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * public class TreeNode {
 *     int val;
 *     TreeNode left;
 *     TreeNode right;
 *     TreeNode(int x) { val = x; }
 * }
 */
class Solution {
    public List<List<Integer>> levelOrder(TreeNode root) {
        List<List<Integer>> res = new ArrayList<List<Integer>>();
        Queue<TreeNode> q = new LinkedList<TreeNode>();

        if (root == null) return res;

        q.offer(root);
        while (!q.isEmpty()) {
            int levelNum = q.size();
            List<Integer> tmpList = new ArrayList<Integer>();
            for (int i = 0; i < levelNum; i++) {
                TreeNode curr = q.poll();
                tmpList.add(curr.val);
                if (curr.left != null) q.offer(curr.left);
                if (curr.right != null) q.offer(curr.right);
            }
            res.add(tmpList);
        }

        return res;
    }
}
```