lintcode-easy-Maximum Depth of Binary Tree

Posted 2020-06-17

Given a binary tree, find its maximum depth.

The maximum depth is the number of nodes along the longest path from the root node down to the farthest leaf node.

Given a binary tree as follow:

  1
 / \ 
2   3
   /   4   5

The maximum depth is 3.

 

/**
 * Definition of TreeNode:
 * public class TreeNode {
 *     public int val;
 *     public TreeNode left, right;
 *     public TreeNode(int val) {
 *         this.val = val;
 *         this.left = this.right = null;
 *     }
 * }
 */
public class Solution {
    /**
     * @param root: The root of binary tree.
     * @return: An integer.
     */
    public int maxDepth(TreeNode root) {
        // write your code here
        if(root == null)
            return 0;
            
        int left = maxDepth(root.left);
        int right = maxDepth(root.right);
        
        return 1 + Math.max(left, right);
    }
}