Binary Tree Postorder Traversal, Hard (?) Leetcode problem

Problem is here: https://leetcode.com/problems/binary-tree-postorder-traversal/

Given a binary tree, return the postorder traversal of its nodes' values.
Example:
Input: [1,null,2,3]
   1
    \
     2
    /
   3

Output: [3,2,1]
Follow up: Recursive solution is trivial, could you do it iteratively?
The recursive solution is indeed trivial and I don't really think this should be considered a hard problem. Solution is below, cheers, Marcelo.


public class Solution
{
 public IList PostorderTraversal(TreeNode root)
 {
  List list = new List();
  PostorderTraversal(root, list);
  return list;
 }

 private void PostorderTraversal(TreeNode root, IList list)
 {
  if (root == null) return;

  PostorderTraversal(root.left, list);
  PostorderTraversal(root.right, list);
  list.Add(root.val);
 }
}

Comments

  1. The reason it's marked as "hard" is because of the follow-up that asks to implement the solution iteratively :) I wouldn't say it makes the problem really hard, but certainly requires a bit more thought.

    C++ solution is below:

    class Solution {
    public:
    vector postorderTraversal(TreeNode* root) {
    if (!root) return {};
    stack s; s.push(root);
    vector traversal;
    while (!s.empty()) {
    auto node = s.top(); s.pop();
    traversal.push_back(node->val);
    if (node->left) s.push(node->left);
    if (node->right) s.push(node->right);
    }
    reverse(traversal.begin(), traversal.end());
    return traversal;
    }
    };

    Cheers,
    Taras

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  2. I realized that, but since it was a follow-up, it came across as bonus :)

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    1. well, as long as judge accepts the solution, I don't think it can be considered wrong :) Maybe they should have tried to reduce the memory and time constraints to fail recursive solutions...

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