Tree

Key points

  • Traversal:

    • pre-order, in-order, post-order

    • Two approaches: 1) DFS, 2) Iteration

  • Divide & Conquer VS Traversal:

    • DC: one send left & right two people to get the result, and then do sth.

    • T: one with a notebook walk through the tree

  • BST, Binary Search Tree:

    • in-order is a sorted list, important !

    • left < root < right, not duplicate

    • use TreeSet or TreeMap

  • Tricks:

    • isLeaf(): root.left == null && root.right == null

    • every node: 1)root == null 2) root.left == null 3)root.right == null

  • Binary Indexed Tree:

    • the sum of (0, i), in O(logn) time.

  • Segment Tree:

    • sum/minimum in a range

Traverse

Pre-order

https://leetcode.com/problems/binary-tree-preorder-traversal/

Iterative

Recursive

In-order

https://leetcode.com/problems/binary-tree-inorder-traversal/

Iterative

Recursive

Post-order

https://leetcode.com/problems/binary-tree-postorder-traversal/

Iterative

Recursive

Reference: https://discuss.leetcode.com/topic/30632/preorder-inorder-and-postorder-iteratively-summarization

Serialization and deserialization

https://leetcode.com/problems/find-duplicate-subtrees https://leetcode.com/problems/serialize-and-deserialize-binary-tree/description/ https://leetcode.com/problems/serialize-and-deserialize-bst https://leetcode.com/problems/construct-string-from-binary-tree https://leetcode.com/problems/construct-binary-tree-from-string

DFS or BFS?

BFS: level

DFS: go through a path

Common law

Array -> Complete Binary Tree: parent i, left 2i+1, right 2i+2

Types of Binary Tree

  • Full Binary Tree

  • Complete Binary Tree

  • AVL Tree: |left height - right height| <= 1

  • Heap: Max Heap, Min Heap. Heap is complete binary tree.

Priority Queue is a Heap, implemented using an Array object[]. More details about heapify: https://jaywinhuang.gitbooks.io/leetcode/content/mySolutions/023-merge-k-sorted-lists.html

Segment Tree

  • the leaves are values of nums

https://leetcode.com/problems/range-sum-query-mutable/description/

ac2: Segment Tree

more intuitive, yet more code. Notice: use divide and conquer, no need to care about the mid point unless building the tree.

Binary Indexed Tree

https://leetcode.com/problems/range-sum-query-mutable/description/ https://leetcode.com/problems/range-sum-query-2d-mutable/description/

ac1: Binary Indexed Tree

careful: bit.length = nums.length + 1; so need to do i++ in methods

https://leetcode.com/problems/reverse-pairs/description/ https://leetcode.com/problems/count-of-smaller-numbers-after-self https://leetcode.com/problems/count-of-range-sum

Binary Search Tree

in-order asecending https://leetcode.com/problems/validate-binary-search-tree/description/ https://leetcode.com/problems/kth-smallest-element-in-a-bst/

Divide & Conquer

get result from children, then do something

https://leetcode.com/problems/longest-univalue-path/description/ https://leetcode.com/problems/count-univalue-subtrees/description/ https://leetcode.com/problems/subtree-of-another-tree/description/

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