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Solution Review: Delete Node

Understand how to delete nodes in a binary search tree efficiently in Go. Explore three deletion scenarios: nodes with no children, one child, and two children, along with practical code explanations to apply these techniques.

Solution

For this solution, there can be three cases for the node that needs to be deleted. Let’s call this node x for simplicity. We’ll discuss each case one-by-one.

Case 1: node x has no children

This is a trivial case, in which we just delete the node (by changing the parent node so that it does not point to x ...