5 Five Essential Steps for Solving Dynamic Programming Problems

In this video, we go over five steps that you can use as a framework to solve dynamic programming problems. You will see how these steps are applied to two specific dynamic programming problems: the longest increasing subsequence problem and optimal box stacking. The five steps in order are as follows:

1. Visualize examples
2. Find an appropriate subproblem
3. Find relationships among subproblems
4. Generalize the relationship
5. Implement by solving subproblems in order

After taking an in depth look at these problems, at the end of the video we will also have a discussion about common subproblems that you may encounter while solving dynamic programming problems.

Error correction: for the box problem, using dictionary solutions only works if we are given unique boxes -- using a list of subproblems would be a better way to solve it if we wanted to handle duplicate boxes (similar to how we did the longest increasing subsequence).

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This video wouldn't be possible without the open source manim library created by 3blue1brown: https://github.com/3b1b/manim

Here is link to the repository that contains the code used to generate the animations in this video: https://github.com/nipunramk/Reducible

Music:
Prelude No. 2 by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/preludes/
Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

All other music by Aakash Gandhi