Binary Tree Level Order traversal in java

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In this post, we will see about Level Order binary tree traversal in java.

Level Order traversal

Level order traversal of below binary tree will be:

We will use Queue for Level Order traversal.This algorithm is very similar to Breadth first search of graph.
Steps for Level order traversal algorithm:

Create empty queue and pust root node to it.
Do the following when queue is not empty
- Pop a node from queue and print it
- Push left child of popped node to queue if not null
- Push right child of popped node to queue if not null

// prints in level order

public static void levelOrderTraversal(TreeNode startNode) {

Queue<TreeNode> queue=new LinkedList<TreeNode>();

queue.add(startNode);

while(!queue.isEmpty())

{

TreeNode tempNode=queue.poll();

System.out.printf("%d ",tempNode.data);

if(tempNode.left!=null)

queue.add(tempNode.left);

if(tempNode.right!=null)

queue.add(tempNode.right);

}

Example:
Lets say your binary tree is :

So Level Order traversal will work as below:

Lets create java program for level order traversal:

package org.arpit.java2blog.binarytree;

import java.util.Queue;

import java.util.LinkedList;

public class BinaryTreeLevelOrder {

public static class TreeNode

{

int data;

TreeNode left;

TreeNode right;

TreeNode(int data)

{

this.data=data;

}

// prints in level order

public static void levelOrderTraversal(TreeNode startNode) {

Queue<TreeNode> queue=new LinkedList<TreeNode>();

queue.add(startNode);

while(!queue.isEmpty())

{

TreeNode tempNode=queue.poll();

System.out.printf("%d ",tempNode.data);

if(tempNode.left!=null)

queue.add(tempNode.left);

if(tempNode.right!=null)

queue.add(tempNode.right);

}

public static void main(String[] args)

{

// Creating a binary tree

TreeNode rootNode=createBinaryTree();

System.out.println("Level Order traversal of binary tree will be:");

levelOrderTraversal(rootNode);

}

public static TreeNode createBinaryTree()

{

TreeNode rootNode =new TreeNode(40);

TreeNode node20=new TreeNode(20);

TreeNode node10=new TreeNode(10);

TreeNode node30=new TreeNode(30);

TreeNode node60=new TreeNode(60);

TreeNode node50=new TreeNode(50);

TreeNode node70=new TreeNode(70);

rootNode.left=node20;

rootNode.right=node60;

node20.left=node10;

node20.right=node30;

node60.left=node50;

node60.right=node70;

return rootNode;

}

Run above program and you will get following output:

Level Order traversal of binary tree will be:
40 20 60 10 30 50 70

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Comments

Juan C. says:

March 16, 2016 at 8:45 pm

You have a typo after explain how Level Order traversal works on “Lets create java program for PreOrder traversal:” it is not PreOrder, anyway everything is well explained and is easy to see that is a typo.

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Saket Kumar says:

April 20, 2017 at 6:12 am

Really good explanation

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Kpd says:

August 3, 2017 at 10:13 pm

Good

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