Coding Interview Fundamentals: Depth-First Search and Recursion (Binary Trees)

Опубликовано: 04 Апрель 2026
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Depth-First Search and Recursion are the two most important topics for the coding interview, as they can be used to solve a wide variety of problems. This video will give you a strong foundation in both topics by teaching you how to solve Binary Tree problems using recursion.

0:00 Introduction
1:44 Depth-First Search Basics
4:24 Thinking Recursively
7:04 Visualizing a Recursive Function
10:21 Relationship between DFS and Recursion
11:07 Time and Space Complexity
11:54 Benefits of Recursion
13:12 Implementing a Recursive Function: Count Nodes in Binary Tree
15:06 Search Binary Tree for Target Implementation
17:43 Visualizing a Search Binary Tree for Target
20:02 Conclusion

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