Coding Challenge #65.1: Binary Search Tree

This multi-part coding challenge is part of the first week of my course: "Intelligence and Learning." Here I attempt to implement a classic data structure: The Binary Search Tree. Code: https://thecodingtrain.com/challenges...

p5.js Web Editor Sketches:
🕹️ Binary Search Tree: https://editor.p5js.org/codingtrain/s...
🕹️ Visualizing a Binary Tree: https://editor.p5js.org/codingtrain/s...

Other Parts of this Challenge:
📺 Visualizing a Binary Tree:    • Coding Challenge #65.2: Visualizing a Bina...  

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Related Coding Challenges:
🚂 #68 Breadth-First Search:    • Coding Challenge #68: Breadth-First Search...  
🚂 #98 Quadtree:    • Coding Challenge #98.1: Quadtree - Part 1  

Timestamps:
0:00 Introducing today's topic: Binary Trees
1:18 Why would you use a binary tree?
3:36 What is a data structure?
4:47 Nodes with children
8:27 Algorithm for how the tree is sorted
11:36 Node object
12:17 Tree object
12:39 Use prototype to add an addNode function
18:58 Use recursion to add nodes
20:42 Deal with the case when two values are equal
22:50 How do you traverse the tree?
25:00 What does it mean to visit a node?
27:39 Add random values
28:58 Add a function to search the tree
37:57 Conclusion and suggested variations

Editing by Mathieu Blanchette
Animations by Jason Heglund
Music from Epidemic Sound

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