Height or maximum depth of a binary tree in Go (Golang)

Overview

The objective is to get the height of a binary tree. For example, if let’s say we have below binary tree

Then the height of the binary tree is 3 here.

Program

Below is the program for the same

package main

import (
	"fmt"
)

type TreeNode struct {
	Val   int
	Left  *TreeNode
	Right *TreeNode
}

func maxDepth(root *TreeNode) int {
	if root == nil {
		return 0
	}
	if root.Left == nil && root.Right == nil {
		return 1
	}

	lHeight := maxDepth(root.Left)
	rHeight := maxDepth(root.Right)

	if lHeight >= rHeight {
		return lHeight + 1
	} else {
		return rHeight + 1
	}
}

func main() {
	root := TreeNode{Val: 1}
	root.Left = &TreeNode{Val: 2}
	root.Left.Left = &TreeNode{Val: 4}
	root.Right = &TreeNode{Val: 3}
	root.Right.Left = &TreeNode{Val: 5}
	root.Right.Right = &TreeNode{Val: 6}

	height := maxDepth(&root)
	fmt.Println(height)

}

Output

3

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