findMin
and findMax
. These methods should return the minimum and maximum value held in the binary search tree (don't worry about adding values to the tree for now, we have added some in the background). If you get stuck, reflect on the invariant that must be true for binary search trees: each left subtree is less than or equal to its parent and each right subtree is greater than or equal to its parent. Let's also say that our tree can only store integer values. If the tree is empty, either method should return null
.
BinarySearchTree
data structure exists.
testString: 'assert((function() { var test = false; if (typeof BinarySearchTree !== "undefined") { test = new BinarySearchTree() }; return (typeof test == "object")})(), "The BinarySearchTree
data structure exists.");'
- text: The binary search tree has a method called findMin
.
testString: 'assert((function() { var test = false; if (typeof BinarySearchTree !== "undefined") { test = new BinarySearchTree() } else { return false; }; return (typeof test.findMin == "function")})(), "The binary search tree has a method called findMin
.");'
- text: The binary search tree has a method called findMax
.
testString: 'assert((function() { var test = false; if (typeof BinarySearchTree !== "undefined") { test = new BinarySearchTree() } else { return false; }; return (typeof test.findMax == "function")})(), "The binary search tree has a method called findMax
.");'
- text: The findMin
method returns the minimum value in the binary search tree.
testString: 'assert((function() { var test = false; if (typeof BinarySearchTree !== "undefined") { test = new BinarySearchTree() } else { return false; }; if (typeof test.findMin !== "function") { return false; }; test.add(4); test.add(1); test.add(7); test.add(87); test.add(34); test.add(45); test.add(73); test.add(8); return test.findMin() == 1; })(), "The findMin
method returns the minimum value in the binary search tree.");'
- text: The findMax
method returns the maximum value in the binary search tree.
testString: 'assert((function() { var test = false; if (typeof BinarySearchTree !== "undefined") { test = new BinarySearchTree() } else { return false; }; if (typeof test.findMax !== "function") { return false; }; test.add(4); test.add(1); test.add(7); test.add(87); test.add(34); test.add(45); test.add(73); test.add(8); return test.findMax() == 87; })(), "The findMax
method returns the maximum value in the binary search tree.");'
- text: The findMin
and findMax
methods return null
for an empty tree.
testString: 'assert((function() { var test = false; if (typeof BinarySearchTree !== "undefined") { test = new BinarySearchTree() } else { return false; }; if (typeof test.findMin !== "function") { return false; }; if (typeof test.findMax !== "function") { return false; }; return (test.findMin() == null && test.findMax() == null) })(), "The findMin
and findMax
methods return null
for an empty tree.");'
```