二进制(或n-ary)树的BFS可以在没有队列的情况下递归完成，如下所示(在Java中):

public class BreathFirst {

    static class Node {
        Node(int value) {
            this(value, 0);
        }
        Node(int value, int nChildren) {
            this.value = value;
            this.children = new Node[nChildren];
        }
        int value;
        Node[] children;
    }

    static void breathFirst(Node root, Consumer<? super Node> printer) {
        boolean keepGoing = true;
        for (int level = 0; keepGoing; level++) {
            keepGoing = breathFirst(root, printer, level);
        }
    }

    static boolean breathFirst(Node node, Consumer<? super Node> printer, int depth) {
        if (depth < 0 || node == null) return false;
        if (depth == 0) {
            printer.accept(node);
            return true;
        }
        boolean any = false;
        for (final Node child : node.children) {
            any |= breathFirst(child, printer, depth - 1);
        }
        return any;
    }
}

按升序遍历打印数字1-12的示例:

public static void main(String... args) {
    //            1
    //          / | \
    //        2   3   4
    //      / |       | \
    //    5   6       7  8
    //  / |           | \
    // 9  10         11  12

    Node root = new Node(1, 3);
    root.children[0] = new Node(2, 2);
    root.children[1] = new Node(3);
    root.children[2] = new Node(4, 2);
    root.children[0].children[0] = new Node(5, 2);
    root.children[0].children[1] = new Node(6);
    root.children[2].children[0] = new Node(7, 2);
    root.children[2].children[1] = new Node(8);
    root.children[0].children[0].children[0] = new Node(9);
    root.children[0].children[0].children[1] = new Node(10);
    root.children[2].children[0].children[0] = new Node(11);
    root.children[2].children[0].children[1] = new Node(12);

    breathFirst(root, n -> System.out.println(n.value));
}

我必须实现以BFS顺序输出的堆遍历。它实际上不是BFS，但完成了相同的任务。

private void getNodeValue(Node node, int index, int[] array) {
    array[index] = node.value;
    index = (index*2)+1;

    Node left = node.leftNode;
    if (left!=null) getNodeValue(left,index,array);
    Node right = node.rightNode;
    if (right!=null) getNodeValue(right,index+1,array);
}

public int[] getHeap() {
    int[] nodes = new int[size];
    getNodeValue(root,0,nodes);
    return nodes;
}

我发现了一个非常漂亮的递归(甚至函数)宽度优先遍历相关算法。不是我的想法，但我认为在这个话题中应该提到它。

Chris Okasaki在http://okasaki.blogspot.de/2008/07/breadth-first-numbering-algorithm-in.html上用3张图片非常清楚地解释了他的ICFP 2000的宽度优先编号算法。

Debasish Ghosh的Scala实现，我在http://debasishg.blogspot.de/2008/09/breadth-first-numbering-okasakis.html找到的，是:

trait Tree[+T]
case class Node[+T](data: T, left: Tree[T], right: Tree[T]) extends Tree[T]
case object E extends Tree[Nothing]

def bfsNumForest[T](i: Int, trees: Queue[Tree[T]]): Queue[Tree[Int]] = {
  if (trees.isEmpty) Queue.Empty
  else {
    trees.dequeue match {
      case (E, ts) =>
        bfsNumForest(i, ts).enqueue[Tree[Int]](E)
      case (Node(d, l, r), ts) =>
        val q = ts.enqueue(l, r)
        val qq = bfsNumForest(i+1, q)
        val (bb, qqq) = qq.dequeue
        val (aa, tss) = qqq.dequeue
        tss.enqueue[org.dg.collection.BFSNumber.Tree[Int]](Node(i, aa, bb))
    }
  }
}

def bfsNumTree[T](t: Tree[T]): Tree[Int] = {
  val q = Queue.Empty.enqueue[Tree[T]](t)
  val qq = bfsNumForest(1, q)
  qq.dequeue._1
}

下面是一个BFS递归遍历Python实现，用于没有周期的图。

def bfs_recursive(level):
    '''
     @params level: List<Node> containing the node for a specific level.
    '''
    next_level = []
    for node in level:
        print(node.value)
        for child_node in node.adjency_list:
            next_level.append(child_node)
    if len(next_level) != 0:
        bfs_recursive(next_level)


class Node:
    def __init__(self, value):
        self.value = value
        self.adjency_list = []

c#实现的递归宽度优先搜索二叉树算法。

二叉树数据可视化

IDictionary<string, string[]> graph = new Dictionary<string, string[]> {
    {"A", new [] {"B", "C"}},
    {"B", new [] {"D", "E"}},
    {"C", new [] {"F", "G"}},
    {"E", new [] {"H"}}
};

void Main()
{
    var pathFound = BreadthFirstSearch("A", "H", new string[0]);
    Console.WriteLine(pathFound); // [A, B, E, H]

    var pathNotFound = BreadthFirstSearch("A", "Z", new string[0]);
    Console.WriteLine(pathNotFound); // []
}

IEnumerable<string> BreadthFirstSearch(string start, string end, IEnumerable<string> path)
{
    if (start == end)
    {
        return path.Concat(new[] { end });
    }

    if (!graph.ContainsKey(start)) { return new string[0]; }    

    return graph[start].SelectMany(letter => BreadthFirstSearch(letter, end, path.Concat(new[] { start })));
}

如果你想让算法不仅适用于二叉树，而且适用于有两个或两个以上节点指向同一个节点的图，你必须通过持有已经访问过的节点列表来避免自循环。实现可能是这样的。

图形数据可视化

IDictionary<string, string[]> graph = new Dictionary<string, string[]> {
    {"A", new [] {"B", "C"}},
    {"B", new [] {"D", "E"}},
    {"C", new [] {"F", "G", "E"}},
    {"E", new [] {"H"}}
};

void Main()
{
    var pathFound = BreadthFirstSearch("A", "H", new string[0], new List<string>());
    Console.WriteLine(pathFound); // [A, B, E, H]

    var pathNotFound = BreadthFirstSearch("A", "Z", new string[0], new List<string>());
    Console.WriteLine(pathNotFound); // []
}

IEnumerable<string> BreadthFirstSearch(string start, string end, IEnumerable<string> path, IList<string> visited)
{
    if (start == end)
    {
        return path.Concat(new[] { end });
    }

    if (!graph.ContainsKey(start)) { return new string[0]; }


    return graph[start].Aggregate(new string[0], (acc, letter) =>
    {
        if (visited.Contains(letter))
        {
            return acc;
        }

        visited.Add(letter);

        var result = BreadthFirstSearch(letter, end, path.Concat(new[] { start }), visited);
        return acc.Concat(result).ToArray();
    });
}

在学习AlgoExpert时，对这个问题进行了改编。提示符中已经提供了以下Class。这里是python中的迭代和递归解决方案。这个问题的目标是返回一个输出数组，其中列出了按访问顺序排列的节点名称。如果遍历顺序为A -> B -> D -> F，则输出为['A'，'B'，'D'，'F']

class Node:
    def __init__(self, name):
        self.children = []
        self.name = name

    def addChild(self, name):
        self.children.append(Node(name))
        return self

递归

def breadthFirstSearch(self, array):
    return self._bfs(array, [self])
    
def _bfs(self, array, visited):

    # Base case - no more nodes to visit
    if len(visited) == 0:
        return array

    node = visited.pop(0)
    array.append(node.name)
    visited.extend(node.children)
    return self._bfs(array, visited)

迭代

def breadthFirstSearch(self, array):
    array.append(self.name)
    queue = [self]
    while len(queue) > 0:
        node = queue.pop(0)
        for child in node.children:
            array.append(child.name)
            queue.append(child)
    return array