{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "This notebook was prepared by [Donne Martin](https://github.com/donnemartin). Source and license info is on [GitHub](https://github.com/donnemartin/interactive-coding-challenges)." ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# Solution Notebook" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Problem: Determine if a tree is a valid binary search tree.\n", "\n", "* [Constraints](#Constraints)\n", "* [Test Cases](#Test-Cases)\n", "* [Algorithm](#Algorithm)\n", "* [Code](#Code)\n", "* [Unit Test](#Unit-Test)" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Constraints\n", "\n", "* Can the tree have duplicates?\n", " * Yes\n", "* If this is called on a None input, should we raise an exception?\n", " * Yes\n", "* Can we assume we already have a Node class?\n", " * Yes\n", "* Can we assume this fits in memory?\n", " * Yes" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Test Cases\n", "\n", "None -> exception\n", "\n", "
\n", "Valid:\n", " 5\n", " / \\\n", " 5 8\n", " / \\ /\n", " 4 6 7\n", "\n", "Invalid:\n", " 5\n", " / \\\n", " 5 8\n", " \\ \n", " 20\n", "" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Algorithm\n", "\n", "We'll use a recursive solution that valides left <= current < right, passing down the min and max values as we do a depth-first traversal.\n", "\n", "* If the node is None, return True\n", "* If min is set and the node's value <= min, return False\n", "* if max is set and the node's value > max, return False\n", "* Recursively call the validate function on node.left, updating max\n", "* Recursively call the validate function on node.right, updating min\n", " \n", "Complexity:\n", "* Time: O(n)\n", "* Space: O(h), where h is the height of the tree" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Code" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 1, "metadata": { "collapsed": true }, "outputs": [], "source": [ "%run ../bst/bst.py" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 2, "metadata": { "collapsed": false }, "outputs": [], "source": [ "def validate_bst(node):\n", " if node is None:\n", " raise Exception('No root node')\n", " return _validate_bst(node, None, None)\n", "\n", "\n", "def _validate_bst(node, mininum, maximum):\n", " if node is None:\n", " return True\n", " if mininum is not None and node.data <= mininum:\n", " return False\n", " if maximum is not None and node.data > maximum:\n", " return False\n", " if not _validate_bst(node.left, mininum, node.data):\n", " return False\n", " if not _validate_bst(node.right, node.data, maximum):\n", " return False\n", " return True" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Unit Test" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 3, "metadata": { "collapsed": false }, "outputs": [ { "name": "stdout", "output_type": "stream", "text": [ "Overwriting test_bst_validate.py\n" ] } ], "source": [ "%%writefile test_bst_validate.py\n", "from nose.tools import assert_equal\n", "from nose.tools import raises\n", "\n", "\n", "class TestBstValidate(object):\n", "\n", " @raises(Exception)\n", " def test_bst_validate_empty(self):\n", " validate_bst(None)\n", "\n", " def test_bst_validate(self):\n", " node = Node(5)\n", " insert(node, 8)\n", " insert(node, 5)\n", " insert(node, 6)\n", " insert(node, 4)\n", " insert(node, 7)\n", " assert_equal(validate_bst(node), True)\n", "\n", " root = Node(5)\n", " left = Node(5)\n", " right = Node(8)\n", " invalid = Node(20)\n", " root.left = left\n", " root.right = right\n", " root.left.right = invalid\n", " assert_equal(validate_bst(root), False)\n", "\n", " print('Success: test_bst_validate')\n", "\n", "\n", "def main():\n", " test = TestBstValidate()\n", " test.test_bst_validate_empty()\n", " test.test_bst_validate()\n", "\n", "\n", "if __name__ == '__main__':\n", " main()" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 4, "metadata": { "collapsed": false }, "outputs": [ { "name": "stdout", "output_type": "stream", "text": [ "Success: test_bst_validate\n" ] } ], "source": [ "%run -i test_bst_validate.py" ] } ], "metadata": { "kernelspec": { "display_name": "Python 3", "language": "python", "name": "python3" }, "language_info": { "codemirror_mode": { "name": "ipython", "version": 3 }, "file_extension": ".py", "mimetype": "text/x-python", "name": "python", "nbconvert_exporter": "python", "pygments_lexer": "ipython3", "version": "3.5.0" } }, "nbformat": 4, "nbformat_minor": 0 }