144. Binary Tree Preorder Traversal

Given the root of a binary tree, return the preorder traversal of its nodes’ values.

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Example 1:

Input: root = [1,null,2,3]
Output: [1,2,3]

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Example 2:

Input: root = []
Output: []

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Example 3:

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

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Example 4:

Input: root = [1,2]
Output: [1,2]

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Example 5:

Input: root = [1,null,2]
Output: [1,2]

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Constraints:

  • The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [0, 100].
  • -100 <= Node.val <= 100

Follow up: Recursive solution is trivial, could you do it iteratively?

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Solution

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/**
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * public class TreeNode {
 *     int val;
 *     TreeNode left;
 *     TreeNode right;
 *     TreeNode() {}
 *     TreeNode(int val) { this.val = val; }
 *     TreeNode(int val, TreeNode left, TreeNode right) {
 *         this.val = val;
 *         this.left = left;
 *         this.right = right;
 *     }
 * }
 */
class Solution {
    
    public List<Integer> preorderTraversal(TreeNode node) {
        List<Integer> res = new ArrayList<>();
        if (node == null) return res;
        TreeNode[] q = new TreeNode[1000];
        int n = 0;
        q[n++] = node;
        while (n > 0) {
            TreeNode t = q[--n];
            res.add(t.val);
            if (t.right != null) q[n++] = t.right;
            // add left as last element to retrive it first from the q
            if (t.left != null) q[n++] = t.left;
        }
        return res;
    }    
    
    public List<Integer> preorderTraversal2(TreeNode node) {
        List<Integer> res = new ArrayList<>();
        visit(node, res);
        return res;
    }
    
    void visit(TreeNode node, List<Integer> res) {
        if (node == null) return;
        res.add(node.val);
        visit(node.left, res);
        visit(node.right, res);
    }
}