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William Swansen has worked in the employment assistance realm since 2007. He is an author, job search strategist, and career advisor who helps individuals worldwide and in various professions to find their ideal careers.
When looking at a question of this magnitude, there are a number of different factors to consider. You will want to get clarification from the interviewer on whether they want to hear the meaning for tree structure data, time complexity, extra space, or a node stack. Let's examine what some of these mean and how they might come up in the course of an interview. Time Complexity - has four transversals O(n) as they visit every node exactly once. Extra Space - requires O(w) Level Order Transversal where w is the maximum width of a Binary Tree which stores nodes of different levels. Interview related questions might look something like.....what are typical binary tree numbers? 1, 3, 7, 15 or in a worst case scenario a value of 2h is Ceil(n/2) will usually come up as good answers to this question. A couple more that might come are when is extra space required for Level Order Transversal and Depth First Transversal? Two good responses can be a more balanced position for Level Order Transversal, and a less balanced position for Depth First Transversal.

William Swansen has worked in the employment assistance realm since 2007. He is an author, job search strategist, and career advisor who helps individuals worldwide and in various professions to find their ideal careers.
"I'm familiar with the meaning of this question. There are a couple ways to answer it so I will give you both examples. The two most common methods of searching a graph or a tree related to a depth first search are depth first search and breadth first search for starters. Depending on the application you are using and the result you want to achieve, this should be determined by the type of data that is contained in your tree or graph data structure. For a Breath First Search, I start at the root node. I then search all their children nodes moving from left to right, then I repeat the process at the level below the root node. I typically repeat this again on each level until I reach the end of the tree or node. As a general practice, I use a queue as an intermediary step as a way of keeping track of what nodes I need to search."

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