How do I iterate over Binary Tree?

Question

Right now I have

 private static void iterateall(BinaryTree foo) {
    if(foo!= null){
    System.out.println(foo.node);
    iterateall(foo.left);
    iterateall(foo.right);
   }
  }

Can you change it to Iteration instead of a recursion?

Answer 1

Can you change it to Iteration instead of a recursion?

You can, using an explicit stack. Pseudocode:

private static void iterateall(BinaryTree foo) {
    Stack<BinaryTree> nodes = new Stack<BinaryTree>();
    nodes.push(foo);
    while (!nodes.isEmpty()) {
        BinaryTree node = nodes.pop();
        if (node == null)
            continue;
        System.out.println(node.node);
        nodes.push(node.right);
        nodes.push(node.left);
    }
}

But this isn’t really superior to the recursive code (except for the missing base condition in your code).