Finding height in Binary Search Tree
- by mike
Hey I was wondering if anybody could help me rework this method to find the height of a binary search tree. So far my code looks like this however the answer im getting is larger than the actual height by 1, but when I remove the +1 from my return statements its less than the actual height by 1? I'm still trying to wrap my head around recursion with these BST any help would be much appreciated.
public int findHeight(){
if(this.isEmpty()){
return 0;
}
else{
TreeNode<T> node = root;
return findHeight(node);
}
}
private int findHeight(TreeNode<T> aNode){
int heightLeft = 0;
int heightRight = 0;
if(aNode.left!=null)
heightLeft = findHeight(aNode.left);
if(aNode.right!=null)
heightRight = findHeight(aNode.right);
if(heightLeft > heightRight){
return heightLeft+1;
}
else{
return heightRight+1;
}
}
