LeetCode with Python -> Dynamic Programming

198. House Robber

You are a professional robber planning to rob houses along a street. Each house has a certain amount of money stashed, the only constraint stopping you from robbing each of them is that adjacent houses have security system connected and it will automatically contact the police if two adjacent houses were broken into on the same night.

Given a list of non-negative integers representing the amount of money of each house, determine the maximum amount of money you can rob tonight without alerting the police.

Credits:
Special thanks to @ifanchu for adding this problem and creating all test cases. Also thanks to @ts for adding additional test cases.

class Solution(object):
    def rob(self, nums):
        """
        :type nums: List[int]
        :rtype: int
        """
        last, now = 0,0
        for i in nums:
            last, now= now, max(last+i, now)
        return now

    # redo this later
    # n,m = 1,2
    # n,m = n+m, n     variables on the left side present the original ones
    # n==3,m==1

746. Min Cost Climbing Stairs

On a staircase, the i-th step has some non-negative cost cost[i] assigned (0 indexed).

Once you pay the cost, you can either climb one or two steps. You need to find minimum cost to reach the top of the floor, and you can either start from the step with index 0, or the step with index 1.

Example 1:

Input: cost = [10, 15, 20]
Output: 15
Explanation: Cheapest is start on cost[1], pay that cost and go to the top.

Example 2:

Input: cost = [1, 100, 1, 1, 1, 100, 1, 1, 100, 1]
Output: 6
Explanation: Cheapest is start on cost[0], and only step on 1s, skipping cost[3].

Note:

1. cost will have a length in the range [2, 1000].
2. Every cost[i] will be an integer in the range [0, 999]

class Solution(object):
    def minCostClimbingStairs(self, cost):
        """
        :type cost: List[int]
        :rtype: int
        """

        take0,take1 = 0,0
        for i in cost:
            take0,take1 = take1, min(take0,take1)+i
        return min(take0,take1)
　　　　 # redo later