house-robber.py

# Time:  O(n)
# Space: O(1)
#
# You are a professional robber planning to rob houses along a street. 
# Each house has a certain amount of money stashed, the only constraint stopping you 
# from robbing each of them is that adjacent houses have security system connected
# and it will automatically contact the police if two adjacent houses were broken into on the same night.
#
# Given a list of non-negative integers representing the amount of money of each house, 
# determine the maximum amount of money you can rob tonight without alerting the police.
#
class Solution:
    # @param num, a list of integer
    # @return an integer
    def rob(self, num):
        if len(num) == 0:
            return 0
            
        if len(num) == 1:
            return num[0]
        
        num_i, num_i_1 = max(num[1], num[0]), num[0]
        for i in xrange(2, len(num)):
            num_i_1, num_i_2 = num_i, num_i_1
            num_i = max(num[i] + num_i_2, num_i_1);
        
        return num_i

if __name__ == '__main__':
        print Solution().rob([8,4,8,5,9,6,5,4,4,10])