Description

	#55	Jump Game	Medium
		Dynamic Programming	Top 150
You are given an integer array nums. You are initially positioned at the array's first index, and each element in the array represents your maximum jump length at that position. Return true if you can reach the last index, or false otherwise.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [2,3,1,1,4]
Output: true

Explanation: Jump 1 step from index 0 to 1, then 3 steps to the last index. Example 2:

Input: nums = [3,2,1,0,4]
Output: false

Explanation: You will always arrive at index 3 no matter what. Its maximum jump length is 0, which makes it impossible to reach the last index.

Solution

1D DP

Runtime 418ms

Memory 43.4MB

class Solution {
    public boolean canJump(int[] nums) {
        /*
            [2,3,1,1,4]
             1 1 2 2 2
         */
        int []dp = new int[nums.length];
        dp[0] = 1;
        for(int i = 0; i < nums.length; i++) {
            for(int j = 1; j <= nums[i]; j++){
                if(i+j >= dp.length) break;
                dp[i+j]++;
            }
                
        }
        for(int i = 0; i < dp.length; i++) {
            if(dp[i] == 0) return false;
        }
            
        return true;
    }
}

1D DP 2

Runtime 76ms

Memory 43.85MB

class Solution {
    public boolean canJump(int[] nums) {
        boolean []dp = new boolean[nums.length];
        dp[0] = true;
        for(int i = 0; i <nums.length; i++) {
            if(!dp[i]) return false;
            for(int j = 1; j <= nums[i]; j++) {
                int next = i + j;
                if(next >= dp.length) break;
                if(next == nums.length -1) return true; // reach end already
                dp[next] = true;
            }
        }
        return dp[nums.length-1];
    }
}

Greedy

Runtime 2ms

Memory 44.02MB

class Solution {
    public boolean canJump(int[] nums) {
        // keep track of the current max reachable position of each step
        int reachable = 0;
        for(int i = 0; i < nums.length; i++) {
            if(i > reachable) return false;
            reachable = Math.max(reachable, i + nums[i]);
        }
        return true;
    }
}