Lecture 015

Complexity Table for Data Structure

	Unsorted	Sorted by Key	Linked List	Hash Table	Tree
lookup	O(n)	O(log(n))	O(n)	O(1) avg. amt	O(log(n))
insert	O(1) amt	O(n)	O(1)	O(1) avg. amt	O(log(n))
find_min	O(n)	O(1)	O(n)	O(n)	O(log(n))

But a tree can be a linked list in worst case.

Trees

• inner node: middle

• root: base node

• leaf: end of node

• sub-tree: sub tree

• left child: child on the left

• right child: child on the right

• their parent: parent of left and right child

• height: the length of the longest path from the root to a leaf

A tree can be:

• empty tree: EMPTY (defined by T==NULL)

• or a root with a tree on its left and right (empty tree is a tree)

Edge Cases of Checking Valid Trees

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• you can check it by using sets of visited nodes

Binary Search Tree (BST)

More specification: is_tree() && is_ordered().

Check Ordered:

Inserting into BST

BST Dictionary

It is not sufficient to re-use the old dictionary library

• return type should be tree

• we should allow NULL node

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