Breadth-First Search

O(V + E)

Color Guide

Unvisited

Enqueued

Exploring

Visited

Start

Speed

Pseudocode

bfs(graph, start): queue = [start], visited = {start} while queue: cur = queue.pop(0) for nb in graph[cur]: if nb not in visited: visited.add(nb), queue.push(nb)

Queue

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Visit Order

Step Log

Complexity

Time	O(V + E)
Space	O(V)