I am trying to implement a level-order traversal (BFS) on a binary tree in Java. I understand that level-order traversal visits nodes level by level from left to right, but I’m not sure how to implement it efficiently.
Here’s the basic structure of my binary tree:
class TreeNode {
int value;
TreeNode left;
TreeNode right;
TreeNode(int value) {
this.value = value;
left = null;
right = null;
}
}
How can I implement a level-order traversal for this binary tree in Java? Should I use a queue to achieve this, and if so, how?
What are the time and space complexities of this approach?
Is there a way to modify the traversal to return the nodes level by level as separate lists, instead of in a single list?
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