104. Maximum Depth of Binary Tree

题目：

Given the root of a binary tree, return its maximum depth.

A binary tree's maximum depth is the number of nodes along the longest path from the root node down to the farthest leaf node.

 

Example 1:

Input: root = [3,9,20,null,null,15,7]
Output: 3

Example 2:

Input: root = [1,null,2]
Output: 2

Example 3:

Input: root = []
Output: 0

Example 4:

Input: root = [0]
Output: 1

 

Constraints:

• The number of nodes in the tree is in the range [0, 10^4].
• -100 <= Node.val <= 100

 

思路：

传统老题。如果当前node为空，return 0，否则递归得到左子的最大层数和右子最大层数，返回获得的最大值再加1即可，这个加1代表本层。

 

代码：

/**
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * struct TreeNode {
 *     int val;
 *     TreeNode *left;
 *     TreeNode *right;
 *     TreeNode() : val(0), left(nullptr), right(nullptr) {}
 *     TreeNode(int x) : val(x), left(nullptr), right(nullptr) {}
 *     TreeNode(int x, TreeNode *left, TreeNode *right) : val(x), left(left), right(right) {}
 * };
 */
class Solution {
public:
    int maxDepth(TreeNode* root) {
        if(!root)
            return 0;
        return max(maxDepth(root->left),maxDepth(root->right))+1;
    }
};