Milestone 6: Non-Linear Structures (Trees)

🟦 Milestone 6: Non-Linear Structures (Trees)

Most data in the real world isn’t a straight line. It’s a hierarchy. From family trees to folder structures, Trees allow us to represent branching logic and achieve logarithmic speed.

📚 Slow-Paced Deep Dives (University Modules)

• Module 1: Binary Trees (The Branching Path): DSA-301. Nodes, children, and hierarchical depth.
• Module 2: Binary Search Trees (The Smart Sorter): DSA-302. Achieving O(log n) performance for search, insert, and delete.

🥅 Milestone Goals

1. Identify the Root, Leaf, and Internal Nodes of a tree.
2. Implement Tree Traversal (In-order, Pre-order, Post-order).
3. Contrast a standard Tree with a Binary Search Tree (BST).
4. Perform a search operation on a BST.

:::tip Real World Use Your computer’s File System is a tree. The DOM (Document Object Model) that represents a webpage is a tree. Even the AI models you use have tree-based logic! :::