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| 1 | +# AVL Trees |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +## Description |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +### Purpose |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +This project is designed to help you develop a better understanding of binary search trees and AVL trees. |
| 8 | +It requires you to manipulate trees in various ways, and to understand the different cases requiring re-balancing a tree. |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +### Challenge |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +#### In short |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +Our goal is improve the [second implementation of AVL tree](https://princomp.github.io/lectures/data/AVLtrees#computing-the-height-on-the-fly) and to understand it better. |
| 15 | +You will be asked to write additional methods, develop new examples, and comment your code. |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +#### In more details |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +We want to implement a more pedagogical version of AVL trees, where operations such as re-balancing are easier to observe step-by-step. |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +- [Start by downloading the existing implementation](https://princomp.github.io/code/projects/AVLTree_I.zip), |
| 22 | +- Add your name in a delimited comment at the top of `Program.cs`, |
| 23 | +- Observe how there is currently some illustration as to how `RotateleftChild` and `DoubleleftChild` operate, using the `public` methods `Rotateleft` and `Doubleleft`, when trees are unbalanced after insertion. |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +Your goal is to edit and expand the solution as follows: |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +- Inside `Program.cs`, illustrate similarly with `Rotateright` and `Doubleright` from `IBtree` how `RotaterightChild` and `DoublerightChild` operate. Create a tree by inserting values, note (in the comments) why it becomes un-balanced, and how it is possible to re-balance it using one of the aforementioned method. Create another example to illustrate the other method. |
| 28 | +- Inside `Program.cs`, create a `BSTree` tree object that is "overall" balanced, but that has sub-tree(s) with a balance greater than or equal to 2 or less than or equal to -2. |
| 29 | +- Create an "Improved" AVL tree class called `IAVLTree` that inherits from `AVLTree`, and contains a `Depth` method that computes the depth of a value: given a value of type `T`, the method should return the depth of the node containing this value, or `-1` if this value is not in the tree. |
| 30 | +[Remember](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2603692/what-is-the-difference-between-depth-and-height-in-a-tree) that |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | + > The depth of a node is the number of edges from the node to the tree's root node. |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +- Inside `Program.cs`, write a snippet of code that |
| 35 | + - Create an `IAVLTree` containing `int`s, |
| 36 | + - Insert 10 random values between 1 and 49 inside of it, |
| 37 | + - Ask the user to enter a number, |
| 38 | + - Displays the depth of the number in the tree. |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +**Pay attention to details**: |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | +- Your program should catch possible exceptions. |
| 43 | +- **Do not modify any file other than `Program.cs`, do not create any file other than `IAVLTree.cs`**. If you *really* need to edit some other file, *please indicate it very clearly at the beginning of `Program.cs`.* |
| 44 | +- **Do not load any additional libraries**, in particular, **do not use C# native lists or LINQ**. |
| 45 | + |
| 46 | +### Bonuses |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | +Bonus points will be given if: |
| 49 | + |
| 50 | +- (easy) Illustrate how |
| 51 | + - `RotaterightChild`, |
| 52 | + - `RotateleftChild`, |
| 53 | + - `DoublerightChild` or |
| 54 | + - `DoubleleftChild` |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | + operate after a tree becomes unbalanced after a **deletion** (the examples above had trees unbalanced following an **insertion**). |
| 57 | +- (medium) Override the `Insert` from `AVLTree` in your `IAVLTree` class so that it uses `SubtreeBalance` (like `Delete` do). Write good test cases to make sure your method behaves as expected. |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | +### Submission |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | +Please, follow our [guideline on project submission](./projects/submission). |
| 62 | +In particular, make sure you write your name and the date in a delimited comment at the beginning of your file. |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | +<!-- |
| 65 | +## Solution |
| 66 | +
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| 67 | +A possible solution is shared [in this archive](./code/projects/AList.zip). |
| 68 | +
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| 69 | +Note that it does not use a "counter" to keep track of how many elements are in the list, but instead resize the array and create a new array of the appropriate size when needed: this is less efficient, since copying the array is linear in its size, but gives a more compact code. |
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