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Data Structures & Algorithms easy

Employee Hierarchy

Build an employee hierarchy tree and compute the total number of direct and indirect reports for each employee.

Iterators & Generators easy

Tree inorder generator

Write a generator function that yields a binary tree's node values in inorder traversal.

generator inorder binary-tree

Trees & Binary Trees easy

Binary Search Tree Class

Build a BinarySearchTree class and a sequence runner that executes a list of operations.

binary-search-tree classes traversal

Trees & Binary Trees easy

Binary Tree Inorder Traversal

Implement an inorder traversal function that returns node values in left-root-right order.

binary-tree traversal recursion

Trees & Binary Trees easy

Preorder Traversal

Implement a function that returns the preorder traversal values of a binary tree.

binary-tree traversal recursion

Trees & Binary Trees easy

Postorder Traversal

Implement a function that returns the postorder traversal of a binary tree as a list of node values.

binary-tree traversal recursion

Trees & Binary Trees easy

Maximum depth of tree

Implement max_depth(root) to return the maximum depth of a binary tree.

binary-tree recursion depth

Trees & Binary Trees easy

Minimum Depth of Tree

Given a binary tree, compute the minimum depth from the root to the nearest leaf node.

binary-tree depth traversal

Trees & Binary Trees easy

Symmetric Tree Check

Write a function that checks whether a binary tree is symmetric (a mirror of itself).

binary-tree recursion mirror

Trees & Binary Trees easy

Same Tree Check

Write a function that checks whether two binary trees are identical in structure and node values.

binary tree recursion tree traversal

Trees & Binary Trees easy

Insert into BST

Implement insertion into a Binary Search Tree while maintaining BST properties.

binary-search-tree recursion tree

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