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Recursion and Memoization

Use recursive techniques and optimize with memoization.

Topics in the full lesson
  • Concept and Use Cases
  • Key Concepts
  • Time and Space Complexity
  • Recursion and Memoization Techniques and Methods
  • Practical Tips and Tricks
  • Common Gotchas
  • Advanced Topics
  • Interview Tips and Tricks
  • Common Mistakes

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Climbing Stairs

Question

You are climbing a staircase with n steps. Each time you can climb either 1 or 2 steps. Return the number of distinct ways you can climb to the top.

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CodingMedium

House Robber

Question

You are a robber planning to rob houses along a street. Each house holds some money: nums[i] for the i-th house. The houses have a connected alarm system, so robbing two adjacent houses on the same night triggers the police. Return the maximum amount of money you can steal without ever robbing two adjacent houses.

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CodingMedium

Target Sum

Question

Given an array of non-negative integers nums and an integer target, return the number of different expressions you can build by placing + or - before each integer in nums such that the resulting expression evaluates to target.

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