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import { TreeNode } from “./TreeNode”;
import {BinaryTree} from “./BinaryTree”;
import Deque from “./deque”;

function zigzagLevelOrder(root) {
if (root == null) return [];

let results = [],
    dq = new Deque(),
    reverse = false;
dq.push(root);

while (dq.length > 0) {
    let size = dq.length;
    results.push([]);

    for (let i = 0; i < size; i++) {
        if (reverse == false) {
            let node = dq.shift();
            results[results.length - 1].push(node.data);
        
            if (node.left != null) {
                dq.push(node.left);
            }
            if (node.right != null) {
                dq.push(node.right);
            }
        } else {
            let node = dq.pop();
            results[results.length - 1].push(node.data);

            if (node.right != null) dq.unshift(node.right);
            if (node.left != null) dq.unshift(node.left);
        }
    }
    reverse = !reverse;
}
return results;

}

// Driver code
function main() {
const input1 = [new TreeNode(100), new TreeNode(50), new TreeNode(200), new TreeNode(25), new TreeNode(75), new TreeNode(350)]
tree1 = new BinaryTree(input1);

const input2 = [new TreeNode(25), new TreeNode(50), new TreeNode(75), new TreeNode(100), new TreeNode(200), new TreeNode(350)]
tree2 = new BinaryTree(input2);

const input3 = [new TreeNode(350), new TreeNode(200), new TreeNode(100), new TreeNode(75), new TreeNode(50), new TreeNode(25)],
tree3 = new BinaryTree(input3);

tree4 = new BinaryTree([new TreeNode(100)]);

roots = [tree1.root, tree2.root, tree3.root, tree4.root, null];

for (let i = 0; i < roots.length; i++) {
    console.log(i + 1 + ".\tBinary Tree:");
    displayTree(roots[i]);
    // Printing the in-order list using the method we just implemented
    console.log("\n\tThe zigzag level order traversal is: ", zigzagLevelOrder(roots[i]));
    console.log("\n", "-".repeat(100), "\n");
}

}

main();


Course: Grokking Coding Interview Patterns in JavaScript - Learn Interactively
Lesson: Solution: Binary Tree Zigzag Level Order Traversal

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