Amazon Interview Question


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Think of Stuff as tree and somestruff as rightchild and otherstuff as leftchild. Now problem is easy :)

- Abhishek June 22, 2012 | Flag Reply
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Does it have any bugs or edge cases where it will not execute?
Describe the time complexity of the function and comment on its effectiveness.

- chaos June 23, 2012 | Flag
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Nullyfy all tree elements

- Anonymous June 23, 2012 | Flag Reply
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Does it have any bugs or edge cases where it will not execute?
Describe the time complexity of the function and comment on its effectiveness.

- chaos June 23, 2012 | Flag
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is it not doing the recursive call, which ends in indeifinite loop

Stuff someStuff = s1.getSomeStuff();
        if(someStuff != null){
            s1.setSomeStuff(doSomeStuff(null, someStuff)); // recursive call here
        }

- Sathiya Moorthy July 10, 2012 | Flag Reply
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not necessarily as getsomeStuff() may return null as well.

- murlikrishna.b July 01, 2013 | Flag


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