CS367 Homework 3
Lecture 1, Spring 2018
Due by 11:59 pm on Friday, March 23, 2018 (not accepted late)

Questions

Homework assignments must be done individually. Collaboration on homework assignments is not allowed.

  1. Assume that general trees are implemented using a Treenode class that includes the following fields and methods:

    // fields
    private T data;
    private List<Treenode<T>> children;
     
    // methods
    public T getData() { return data; }
    public List<Treenode<T>> getChildren() { return children; }

    For efficiency, use an iterator to access the children in the list returned by the method getChildren (as we've done in lecture). You may assume that getChildren never returns null: if a node is a leaf, then getChildren will return a non-null list containing zero elements.

    Write an isBinary method whose header is given below.

    public boolean isBinary( Treenode<T> n )

    The method should determine if the general tree rooted by n is also a binary tree. A binary tree is recursively defined as:

    • An empty tree is binary.
    • A leaf node is a binary tree.
    • A node with 1 or 2 children is binary if each child is itself a binary tree.


  2. Assume that binary trees are implemented using a BinaryTreenode class that includes the following fields and methods:

    // fields
    private T data;
    private BinaryTreenode<T> left, right;
     
    // methods
    public T getData()                { return data; }
    public BinaryTreenode<T> getLeft()        { return left; }
    public BinaryTreenode<T> getRight()       { return right; }
    public void setLeft(BinaryTreenode<T> newL)  { left  = newL; }
    public void setRight(BinaryTreenode<T> newR) { right = newR; }

    Write the findNegatives method whose header is given below.

    public static List<Integer> findNegatives( BinaryTreenode<Integer> n)

    The method should return a list containing all the negative values in a binary tree containing Integer data. For example, if the tree pointed to by n looks like this:

            -6
            / \
           /   \
         -4     5
         /     / \
        9     8  -1
       / \     \   \
      7  -3     2   0
    

    then findNegatives(n) should return a list containing -6, -4, -1, and -3 (not necessarily in this order). If the same value appears more than once in the tree, it should also appear more than once in the result list.

    Part A: First, complete the English descriptions of the base and recursive cases, like what was given above for Question 1.

    • The list of negative values in an empty tree is the empty list.
    • The list of negative values in a tree with one node is (fill in your answer here)
    • The list of negative values in a tree with more than one node is (fill in your answer here)

    Part B: Now write the findNegatives method. You may assume that the List used to hold negative values is implemented as an ArrayList.

  3. Assume that binary search trees are implemented using a BSTnode class that includes the following fields and methods:

    // fields
    private K key;
    private BSTnode<K> left, right;
     
    // methods
    public K getKey() { return key; }
    public BSTnode<K> getLeft()  { return left; }
    public BSTnode<K> getRight() { return right; }
    public void setLeft(BSTnode<K> newL)  { left  = newL; }
    public void setRight(BSTnode<K> newR) { right = newR; }

    where K is a class that implements the Comparable interface. For this question you will write the secondSmallest method whose header is given below.

    public K secondSmallest(BSTnode<K> n)

    The method should return the second smallest item in the tree or null if the tree is empty or only has one item. (Note: your method is not required to be recursive.)

Handing in

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