The next data structure we’ll be talking about is a tree. Like their real life counterparts, trees as a data structure have a root, some branches, some leaves, etc. In programming, a tree is basically just an extension of a linked list. Recall that an element or node in a linked list stores its value and a pointer to the next value. With a node in a tree, we store the value of a node and the next values for its children. A tree must also be completely connected, if we start at the first node, we can reach every element in the tree. There will also be no cycles, going down a tree can’t bring us back up.
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