July 28, 2015

Problem statement:

You are climbing a stair case. It takes n steps to reach to the top. Each time you can either climb 1 or 2 steps. In how many distinct ways can you climb to the top?

The problem is most popular question in the algorithm, so I do like to spend time to find out all sorts of solution, and get myself comfortable to all kinds of ideas,

and figure out which one is best, and all concerns we can have in the discussion of climbing stairs:

1. Recursion solution vs. DP problem solution (Dynamic Programming solution)

2. Time complexity solution: O(2^n) vs O(n) solution

3. The space O(N) vs O(1), in other words: array of N or 2 variable, and another tmp variable

4. The base case discussion: f(0) = 1 or f(0) =1, math question?

5. Math formula - closed form solution vs DP problem solution

6. Use Memoization DP vs. no memoization DP

7. Programming skills, how to make code easy to follow, more readable, more abstract.

The investment of time on the problem is well done. Go over 16 implementation one by one using C# programming language.

C# code:

https://github.com/jianminchen/climbingStairs/blob/master/climbingStairs.cs

其实, 我觉得题目越容易, 越值得投入时间去学习; 看看大家有没有不同的理解, 打开思路; 如果自己没有训练过这道题, 可能会紧张;

即使训练过, 但是, 有的想法, 可能自己从来没有思考过, 一时还不能判断好坏, 想不出来, 但是, 多看网上的博客, 向每一个人取取经. 谦虚, 才能有提高.

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平时训练. 训练的水平, 就是自己编程的水平.