Let's say I have a simple binary tree node class, like so:
public class BinaryTreeNode {
public String identifier = "";
public BinaryTreeNode parent = null;
public BinaryTreeNode left = null;
public BinaryTreeNode right = null;
public BinaryTreeNode(BinaryTreeNode parent, String identifier)
{
this.parent = parent; //passing null makes this the root node
this.identifier = identifier;
}
public boolean IsRoot() {
return parent == null;
}
}
How would I add a method which is able to recursively traverse through any size tree, visiting each and every existing node from left to right, without revisiting a node that has already been traversed?
Would this work?:
public void traverseFrom(BinaryTreeNode rootNode)
{
/* insert code dealing with this node here */
if(rootNode.left != null)
rootNode.left.traverseFrom(rootNode.left);
if(rootNode.right != null)
rootNode.traverseFrom(rootNode.right);
}
There are 3 types of Binary tree traversal that you can achieve :
example:
consider this following Binary tree :
Pre-order traversal sequence: F, B, A, D, C, E, G, I, H (root, left, right)
In-order traversal sequence: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H ,I (left, root, right)
Post-order traversal sequence: A, C, E, D, B, H, I, G, F (left, right, root)
code example:
left to right traversal of the Binary tree, nay In order Traversal of binary tree :
public void traverse (Node root){ // Each child of a tree is a root of its subtree.
if (root.left != null){
traverse (root.left);
}
System.out.println(root.data);
if (root.right != null){
traverse (root.right);
}
}