[algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview quesiton

2011-02-06 Thread algoseeker
I also encountered this question yesterday. This is my solution which i tested for a few sample cases. https://github.com/algoseeker/Interview/blob/master/Node.java I maintained a pointer to the Node where there should be creation of a new node. If the node created is left child, shift the

[algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview quesiton

2011-02-06 Thread jalaj
use a stack for this { //let preorder traversal of a tree be in a array t for(i = t.length; i-1; i--){ if(t(i) == L){ stack.push(t[i]); }else{ leftChild = s.pop(); // will return null if stack is empty rightChild = s.pop(); // will return null if stack is empty node = new Node(leftChild,

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview quesiton

2011-02-06 Thread Gajendra Dadheech
I gues jalaj's solun works perfect. Thanks and regards, Gajendra Dadheech On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 4:06 PM, jalaj jalaj.jaiswa...@gmail.com wrote: use a stack for this { //let preorder traversal of a tree be in a array t for(i = t.length; i-1; i--){ if(t(i) == L){ stack.push(t[i]);

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview quesiton

2011-02-06 Thread jalaj jaiswal
My solution in more detail (in words ):- start from the end if you get an L make a node with data L and push its pointer in stack, if you get a M pop two elements from stack make them left and right children of M and then push back m's pointer to stack(if stack is empty then stack returns NULL

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview quesiton

2011-02-06 Thread yq Zhang
but the tree can be created from a preorder walk is more than 1 right? so the question only ask for 1? On Feb 6, 2011 7:31 AM, jalaj jaiswal jalaj.jaiswa...@gmail.com wrote: My solution in more detail (in words ):- start from the end if you get an L make a node with data L and push its pointer

Re: [algogeeks] Re: Amazon interview quesiton

2011-02-06 Thread jalaj jaiswal
no unique tree will get created i think .. as first popped is left child and second popped is right child in algo On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 10:29 PM, yq Zhang zhangyunq...@gmail.com wrote: but the tree can be created from a preorder walk is more than 1 right? so the question only ask for 1? On