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40 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know
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40 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know

by Imran Ahmad
June 2020
Intermediate to advanced
382 pages
11h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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Breadth-first search

BFS works best when there is a concept of layers or levels of neighborhoods in the aGraph we are dealing with. For example, when the connections of a person in LinkedIn are expressed as a graph, there are first-level connections and then there are second-level connections, which directly translate to the layers.

The BFS algorithm starts from a root vertex and explores the vertices in the neighborhood vertices. It then moves to the next neighborhood level and repeats the process.

Let's look at a BFS algorithm. For that, let's first consider the following undirected graph:

Let's start by calculating the immediate neighborhood ...

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ISBN: 9781789801217