Dynamic Programming pattern

Paint House

Each house must be painted one of three colors, and no two adjacent houses may share a color. Given the cost of painting each house each color, return the minimum total painting cost. Watch it run step by step, then write your own pseudocode and get it checked by AI.

  • LeetCode 256
  • Medium
  • 1 approach

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Dynamic ProgrammingLeetCode 256

Medium

The approach

  1. 01 Grid DP (tabulation) O(R)O(R) space
Played step by step, with its time and space.

What you will learn

  • How to read Paint House and spot the dynamic programming pattern in it
  • Grid DP (tabulation): O(R) time, O(R) space
  • The pseudocode for each approach, its line lit as the animation runs
  • Practice: write your own pseudocode and get it checked

More Dynamic Programming

See Paint House run, step by step

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