Sunday 14 May 2017

Depth First Search in Graph

DFS involves following a path from source vertex to adjacent vertices until there are no other vertex is left to visit.

Objective

  • Start with source vertex, push it into stack, mark it visited and display it
  • Now peek the stack and look for adjacent vertices.
  • If found push it into stack, mark it visited and display it.
  • If not, then pop up from stack and again repeat step 2.
  • Repeat till stack is empty.



Please refer Basic of Graph post for prerequiste code.

Let’s start with implementing method for finding next adjacent vertex for the given vertex.
We will use edges matrix to determine already visited and connected vertices.




Finally, implement method to perform DFS.


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