Mid
Trees
DSA & Coding Interviews
Explain Binary Tree Level Order Traversal (BFS).
Short answer: BFS with a queue. Process level size at a time, enqueue children, and collect values per level into a list of lists.
Complexity
Time O(n), Space O(n) for the queue/result.
Common follow-ups
- Zigzag level order
- Average of levels
- Right side view
Capturing level size before the inner loop is the key detail interviewers watch for.
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