How to implement PreOrder traversal of Binary Tree in Java - Example Tutorial

The easiest way to implement the preOrder traversal of a binary tree in Java is by using recursion. The recursive solution is hardly 3 to 4 lines of code and exactly mimic the steps, but before that, let's revise some basics about a binary tree and preorder traversal. Unlike array and linked list which have just one way to traversed i.e. linearly, binary tree has several ways to traverse all nodes e.g. preorder, postorder and inorder. But, tree traversal algorithms are mainly divided into two categories, the depth-first algorithms, and breadth first algorithms. In depth first, you go deeper into a tree before visiting the sibling node, for example, you go deep following left node before you come back and traverse the right node. On breadth-first traversal, you visit the tree on its breadth i.e. all nodes of one level is visited before you start with another level top to bottom. The PreOrder, InOrder, and PostOrder traversals are all examples of depth-first traversal algorithms.

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