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Lesson 4 of 9 in Coddy's Depth-First Search - Graph Algorithms course.

buildAdjacency(n, edges):
   adj = n empty lists
   for each pair (u, v) in edges:
      adj[u].add(v)
      adj[v].add(u)         # undirected
   sort every adj[i] ascending

dfs(n, edges, start):
   build adjacency
   visited = all false
   stack = [start]
   order = []
   while stack not empty:
      node = stack.pop()
      if visited[node]: continue
      visited[node] = true
      order.add(node)
      for nb in adj[node] from last to first:
         if not visited[nb]: stack.push(nb)
   return order
  • The adjacency list turns the flat edge array into, for each vertex, the sorted list of its neighbors.
  • Pushing neighbors last-to-first makes the stack hand back the smallest neighbor first, so the visit order is deterministic.

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