How to determine if binary tree is balanced?

Question

It\'s been a while from those school years. Got a job as IT specialist at a hospital. Trying to move to do some actual programming now. I\'m working on binary trees now, a

Answer 1

To have a better performance specially on huge trees you can save the height in each node so it is a trade off space Vs performance:

class Node {
    Node left;
    Node right;
    int value;
    int height;
}

Example of implementing the addition and same for deletion

void addNode(Node root,int v)
{    int height =0;
     while(root != null)
     {
         // Since we are adding new node so the height 
         // will increase by one in each node we will pass by
         root.height += 1;
         height++;
         else if(v > root.value){
            root = root.left();
            }
         else{
         root = root.right();
         }

     }

         height++;
         Node n = new Node(v , height);
         root = n;         
}
int treeMaxHeight(Node root)
{
 return Math.Max(root.left.height,root.right.height);
}

int treeMinHeight(Node root)
{
 return Math.Min(root.left.height,root.right.height);

}

Boolean isNodeBlanced(Node root)
{
   if (treeMaxHeight(root) - treeMinHeight(root) > 2)
       return false;

  return true;
}

Boolean isTreeBlanced (Node root)
{
    if(root == null || isTreeBalanced(root.left) && isTreeBalanced(root.right) && isNodeBlanced(root))
    return true;

  return false;

}