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Binary Trees 2015

September 29th, 2015

Binary Trees

Videos from mycodeschool.com

Binary Tree: Level Order Traversal

Binary Tree Traversal: Preorder, Inorder, Postorder

Delete a node from Binary Search Tree

Inorder Successor in a binary search tree

Check if a binary tree is binary search tree or not

Homework:

1. Draw the binary search tree that results from adding the following integers (34 45 3 87 65 32 1 12 17).

2. Look into the BinarySearchTreeADT in the book.

3. Read Implementing Binary Search Trees: With Links

Trees Assignments

September 25th, 2015

Trees

  • A tree is a nonlinear structure in which elements are organized
    into a hierarchy.
  • A tree is composed of a set of nodes in which elements are stored and edges that connect one node to another.
  • Each node is at a particular level in the tree hierarchy.
  • The root of the tree is the only node at the top level of the tree.
  • There is only one root node in a tree.
  • The nodes at lower levels of the tree are the children of nodes at the previous level.
  • A node can have only one parent, but a node may have multiple children.
  • Nodes that have the same parent are called siblings.
  • The root node is the only node in a tree that does not have a parent.
  • A node that does not have any children is called a leaf.
  • The root is the entry point into a tree structure. We can follow a path through the tree from parent to child.
  • We can follow a path through the tree from parent to child.
  • A node is the ancestor of another node if it is above it on the path from the root.
  • The level of a node is also the length of the path from the root to the node.
  • This path length is determined by counting the number of edges that must be followed to get from the root to the node.
  • The height of a tree is the length of the longest path from the root to a leaf.

Tree Terminology Tree path and level

Tree Types

  • A tree that has no limit to the number of children a node may have is called a general tree.
  • A tree that limits each node to no more than n children is referred to as an n-ary tree.
  • A tree in which nodes may have at most two children is called a binary tree.
  • A tree is considered to be balanced if all of the leaves of the tree are on the same level or at least within one level of each other.
  • A balanced n-ary tree with m elements will have a height of log base n of m.
  • A balanced binary tree with n nodes will have a height of log base 2 of n.

Tree balanced

  • A complete tree is related to the balance of a tree.
  • A tree is complete if it is balanced and all of the leaves at the bottom level are on the left side of the tree.
  • Another way to define this concept is that a complete binary tree has 2^k nodes at every level k except the last, where the nodes must be leftmost.
  • An n-ary tree is considered full if all the leaves of the tree are at the same level and every node is either a leaf or has exactly n children.

Complete Trees

(a) and (c)–are complete
Only (c) in Figure full

Homework:
Visit edmodo.com to answer the following questions
1. What is a tree?
2. What is a node?
3. What is the root of the tree?
4. What is a leaf?
5. What is an internal node?
6. Define the height of a tree.
7. Define the level of a node.

Read Tree implementation with arrays.

Queue ADT


A Queue ADT
A queue is a linear collection whose elements are added on one end and removed from the other. Therefore, we say that queue elements are processed in a first in, first out (FIFO) manner. Elements are removed from a queue in the same order in which they are placed on the queue.

queue

queue operations

public interface QueueADT
{
// Adds one element to the rear of the queue
public void enqueue (T element);

// Removes and returns the element at the front of the queue
public T dequeue();

// Returns without removing the element at the front of the queue
public T first();

// Returns true if the queue contains no elements
public boolean isEmpty();

// Returns the number of elements in the queue
public int size();

// Returns a string representation of the queue
public String toString();
}

Assignment: Using the QueueADT interface, implement the Queue ADT according to the API below:

■ Queue elements are processed in a FIFO manner—the first element in is the first element out.
■ A queue is a convenient collection for storing a repeating code key.
■ Simulations are often implemented using queues to represent waiting lines.
■ A linked implementation of a queue is facilitated by references to the first and last elements of the linked list.
■ The enqueue and dequeue operations work on opposite ends of the collec- tion.
■ Because queue operations modify both ends of the collection, fixing one end at index 0 requires that elements be shifted.
■ The shifting of elements in a noncircular array implementation creates an O(n) complexity.
■ Treating arrays as circular eliminates the need to shift elements in an array queue implementation.

Assignments:
1. Create a system using a stack and a queue to test whether a given string is a palindrome (i.e., the characters read the same forward or backward).

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2. Create a system to simulate vehicles at an intersection. Assume that there is one lane going in each of four directions, with stoplights facing each direction. Vary the arrival average of vehicles in each direction and the frequency of the light changes to view the “behavior” of the intersection.

traffic

LinkedBinarySearchTree

Classwork/Homework:

  1. The LinkedBinarySearchTree class is currently using the find and contains methods of the LinkedBinaryTree class. Implement these methods for the LinkedBinarySearchTree class so that they will be more efficient by making use of the ordering property of a binary search tree.
  2. Implement the removeMax, findMin, and findMax operations for our linked binary search tree implementation.
  3. Implement the removeMax, findMin, and findMax operations for our array binary search tree implementation.

Stacks and Queues – Stack Implementation

Data Structures: Stacks and Queues

stack-of-books

in-line

Stacks. A stack is a collection that is based on the last-in-first-out (LIFO) policy. By tradition, we name the stack insert method push() and the stack remove operation pop(). We also include a method to test whether the stack is empty, as indicated in the following API:
stack-api

Video Lectures :
Stacks and Queues
Clients

Assignment:
Implement the ArrayStackOfIntegers ADT for Integers using arrays.

Other members that you need to implement:

import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;

public class ArrayStackOfIntegers implements Iterable {
    private Integers[] items;  // holds the items
    private int n;             // number of items in stack
    public ArrayStackOfIntegers(int capacity) {
        items = (Integer[]) new Object[capacity];
    }

    public boolean isEmpty() {
        ----
    }

    public boolean isFull() {
        ----
    }

    public void push(Integer item) {
        ----
    }

    public Integer pop() {
        
    }

    public Iterator iterator() {
        return new ReverseArrayIterator();
    }

    // an iterator, doesn't implement remove() since it's optional
    private class ReverseArrayIterator implements Iterator {

    ----
    public void remove() 
    {}
    }
}


An example of Iterable

The files in this site are cleaned up a bit here.

Use the ArrayStackOfIntegers ADT  to work on these assignments:
ArrayStackOfIntegers ADT – Calculator
Design and implement a client to calculate the following postfix expression: 8 4 -3 * 1 5 + / *

 
ArrayStackOfIntegers ADT – Enhanced Calculator
 
StackCalculatorEnhanced

 

N dragon curve using turtle graphics

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Dragon curve. Use the program, Dragon.java that reads in a command-line parameter N and plots the order N dragon curve using turtle graphics. The dragon curve was first discovered by three NASA physicists (John E. Heighway, Bruce A. Banks, and William G. Harter) and later popularized by Martin Gardner in Scientific American (March and April 1967) and Michael Crichton in Jurassic Park.
Describe in a short paragraph how the program works.
dragon_curve_animation

220px-fractal_dragon_curve

400px-dragoncurve_animation

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Turtle Graphics: Koch – Circle Approximation

 

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Classwork:

Set up your working environment

1. Create a folder to hold your projects for this class, Algorithms.
2. Create a folder for ADTs.
3. Create a project in ADTs with the classes presented in the pdf above. Ensure that your project contains the files needed to test your classes. Check edmodo.com for due dates.
4. Write your own main method to test your classes. Ensure you have good documentation.
5. Submit your work to edmodo.com.

Guidelines to submit your work:

  1. Find the assignment’s post
  2. Copy and paste your work on the post.
  3. If the assignment is a program, you also have to attach the file to the post.
  4. The file has to have your initials followed an underscore and the program name.

Every program has to have a header:

  • Assignment description
  • Author’s name
  • Date
  • If the program doesn’t run successfully, write a short paragraph as part of the program header explaining the problem.

Input and output:

  • If the assignment requires input and output is generated, both should be included in your program as comments.
  • If the output is an image or animation, submit a screen shot.

Using Turtle ADT
turtle_draw papert
Seymour Aubrey Papert (February 29, 1928 – July 31, 2016)
was a South African-born American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator, who spent most of his career teaching and researching at MIT.[1] He was one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, and of the constructionist movement in education. He was co-inventor, with Wally Feurzeig, of the Logo programming language.
Logo
Papert used Piaget’s work in his development of the Logo programming language while at MIT. He created Logo as a tool to improve the way children think and solve problems. A small mobile robot called the “Logo Turtle” was developed, and children were shown how to use it to solve simple problems in an environment of play. A main purpose of the Logo Foundation research group is to strengthen the ability to learn knowledge.[7] Papert insisted a simple language or program that children can learn—like Logo—can also have advanced functionality for expert users.
From Wikipedia

Assignment:
Regular n-gons. Ngon.java takes a command-line argument n and draws a regular n-gon using turtle graphics or the Std library. By taking n to a sufficiently large value, we obtain a good approximation to a circle. Show your images as n increases. Implement an algorithm to find the smallest value for n to get the best approximation to a circle.
Document clearly your proof.
NOTE: only show few images

Homework:
Set up your working environment in your own computer.
Assignment:
Recursive graphics. Koch.java takes a command-line argument n and draws a Koch curve of order n. A Koch curve of order order 0 is a line segment. To form a Koch curve of order n:
Draw a Koch curve of order n−1
Rotate 60° counterclockwise
Draw a Koch curve of order n−1
Rotate 120° clockwise
Draw a Koch curve of order n−1
Rotate 60° counterclockwise
Draw a Koch curve of order n−1
Below are the Koch curves of order 0, 1, 2, and 3.
As the order of the curve increases, how is the area between the curve and the “x-axis” affected? Modify the Koch ADT to include a method that implements the area computation to assist you in answering the question.
Document clearly your proof.

Koch Snowflake