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Swift Data Structure and Algorithms

You're reading from   Swift Data Structure and Algorithms Implement Swift structures and algorithms natively

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884504
Length 286 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Swift Data Structure and Algorithms
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Walking Across the Playground FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Commonly Used Data Structures 3. Standing on the Shoulders of Giants 4. Sorting Algorithms 5. Seeing the Forest through the Tree 6. Advanced Searching Methods 7. Graph Algorithms 8. Performance and Algorithm Efficiency 9. Choosing the Perfect Algorithm

Breadth first search


Breadth first search (BFS) is a type of traversal that focuses on visiting the nodes of the same level (or neighbors) before going deeper into the graph (to the neighbors of the neighbors).

Another condition to take into account is that we should visit each node just once. Let's see an example with the following graph:

BFS example

In step 1, we visit node A. Then we pass to the first child of A: node B. We visit all the children of B: C, D, and E, before going into its grandchildren: F.

We have already implemented Vertex, Edge, and AdjacencyList structs. We are going to make an example of BFS based on a graph built with classes instead, so we will cover both approaches.

Let's start by implementing a graph node with a Swift class. In order to perform a BFS, we need a data structure that contains info about the following:

  • Some value to identify the node (such as in the preceding figure: A, B, C, D, and so on).

  • The list of connected nodes (or children, neighbors...it depends...

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