Given a binary tree, find its minimum depth.
The minimum depth is the number of nodes along the shortest path from the root node
down to the nearest leaf node.
Solution: 1. Recursion. Pay attention to cases when the non-leaf node has only one child.
2. Iteration + Queue.
1 /** 2 * Definition for binary tree 3 * struct TreeNode { 4 * int val; 5 * TreeNode *left; 6 * TreeNode *right; 7 * TreeNode(int x) : val(x), left(NULL), right(NULL) {} 8 * }; 9 */ 10 class Solution { 11 public: 12 int minDepth(TreeNode *root) { 13 if(!root) return 0; 14 if(!root->left && !root->right) return 1; 15 if(!root->left) { 16 return 1 + minDepth(root->right); 17 } 18 if(!root->right) { 19 return 1 + minDepth(root->left); 20 } 21 return 1 + min(minDepth(root->left), minDepth(root->right)); 22 } 23 };