Iterative Traversal of Binary Tree

Preorder Iterative

1) Create an empty stack nodeStack and push root node to stack. 2) Do following while nodeStack is not empty.
….a) Pop an item from stack and print it.
….b) Push right child of popped item to stack
….c) Push left child of popped item to stack

Inorder Iterative

1) Create an empty stack S.
2) Initialize current node as root
3) Push the current node to S and set current = current->left until current is NULL
4) If current is NULL and stack is not empty then 
     a) Pop the top item from stack.
     b) Print the popped item, set current = popped_item->right 
     c) Go to step 3.
5) If current is NULL and stack is empty then we are done.

Post Order Iterative 

1. Push root to first stack.
2. Loop while first stack is not empty
   2.1 Pop a node from first stack and push it to second stack
   2.2 Push left and right children of the popped node to first stack
3. Print contents of second stack

Qn: Given a list of integers, find the highest value that can be obtained by concatenating these integers together?

Ans:
The idea is to use any comparison based sorting algorithm. In the used sorting algorithm, instead of using the default comparison, write a comparison function myCompare() and use it to sort numbers. Given two numbers X and Y, how should myCompare() decide which number to put first – we compare two numbers XY (Y appended at the end of X) and YX (X appended at the end of Y). If XY is larger, then X should come before Y in output, else Y should come before. For example, let X and Y be 542 and 60. To compare X and Y, we compare 54260 and 60542. Since 60542 is greater than 54260, we put Y first.