Amazon Interview Question

Serialize a Binary Tree so that I can create the same tree on another machine.

Interview Answers

Anonymous

Jan 30, 2012

Breadth-first algorithm

Anonymous

Feb 5, 2012

you shud send two lists.... 1.traversed in "in-order" fashion 2.traversed in "pre-order" fashion

Anonymous

Feb 18, 2012

BFS is good. So, lets say we use equal length records and we use some sort of array or file structure. Lets assume for now payload is integer. let bst be such as this 1 2 3 4 0 5 6 0 7 0 0 Serizalize it as D,2,3,D,4,0,D,5,6,,D,0,0,D,0,7,D,0,0,D,0,0