package com.leetcode.dynamicprogramming; /** * Level: Easy * Problem Link: https://leetcode.com/problems/paint-house/ * Problem Description: * There are a row of n houses, each house can be painted with one of the three colors: red, blue or green. The cost * of painting each house with a certain color is different. You have to paint all the houses such that no two adjacent * houses have the same color. The cost of painting each house with a certain color is represented by a n x 3 cost matrix. *

* For example, costs[0][0] is the cost of painting house 0 with color red; costs[1][2] is the cost of painting * house 1 with color green, and so on... Find the minimum cost to paint all houses. *

* Companies: LinkedIn. * Related: {@link PaintHouseII}. * * @author rampatra * @since 2019-07-23 */ public class PaintHouse { /** * Runtime: 1 ms. * * @param costs of coloring the houses with red, blue, and green respectively. 1st row represents house 1, 2nd row * house 2 and so on * @return the minimum cost to paint all houses such that no two adjacent houses are of same color */ public static int minCost(int[][] costs) { if (costs == null || costs.length == 0) return 0; for (int i = 1; i < costs.length; i++) { costs[i][0] += Math.min(costs[i - 1][1], costs[i - 1][2]); costs[i][1] += Math.min(costs[i - 1][0], costs[i - 1][2]); costs[i][2] += Math.min(costs[i - 1][0], costs[i - 1][1]); } int lastRow = costs.length - 1; return Math.min(Math.min(costs[lastRow][0], costs[lastRow][1]), costs[lastRow][2]); } public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println(minCost(new int[][]{ })); System.out.println(minCost(new int[][]{ {2, 3, 4}, {5, 7, 6}, {8, 7, 2} })); } }