improve_with_cache

Author: TarasMykytiuk

Sprint-2/improve_with_caches/fibonacci/fibonacci.py

@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
+cache = {}
+
 def fibonacci(n):
     if n <= 1:
         return n
-    return fibonacci(n - 1) + fibonacci(n - 2)
+    if n in cache:
+        return cache[n]
+    else:
+        cache[n] = fibonacci(n - 1) + fibonacci(n - 2)
+        return cache[n]

Sprint-2/improve_with_caches/making_change/making_change.py

@@ -1,32 +1,40 @@
 from typing import List
-
+cache = {}
+COINS = [200, 100, 50, 20, 10, 5, 2, 1]
+COINT_TYPES_NUM = len(COINS)
 
 def ways_to_make_change(total: int) -> int:
     """
     Given access to coins with the values 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, returns a count of all of the ways to make the passed total value.
 
     For instance, there are two ways to make a value of 3: with 3x 1 coins, or with 1x 1 coin and 1x 2 coin.
     """
-    return ways_to_make_change_helper(total, [200, 100, 50, 20, 10, 5, 2, 1])
+    return ways_to_make_change_helper(total, 0)
 
 
-def ways_to_make_change_helper(total: int, coins: List[int]) -> int:
+def ways_to_make_change_helper(total: int, coin_index: int) -> int:
     """
     Helper function for ways_to_make_change to avoid exposing the coins parameter to callers.
     """
-    if total == 0 or len(coins) == 0:
+    if (total, coin_index) in cache:
+        return cache[(total, coin_index)]
+
+    if total == 0:
+        return 1
+
+    if coin_index == COINT_TYPES_NUM:
         return 0
 
+
     ways = 0
-    for coin_index in range(len(coins)):
-        coin = coins[coin_index]
-        count_of_coin = 1
-        while coin * count_of_coin <= total:
-            total_from_coins = coin * count_of_coin
-            if total_from_coins == total:
-                ways += 1
-            else:
-                intermediate = ways_to_make_change_helper(total - total_from_coins, coins=coins[coin_index+1:])
-                ways += intermediate
-            count_of_coin += 1
+    coin = COINS[coin_index]
+    count_of_coin = 0
+    while count_of_coin * coin <= total:
+        ways += ways_to_make_change_helper(
+            total - count_of_coin * coin,
+            coin_index + 1
+        )
+        count_of_coin += 1
+    
+    cache[(total, coin_index)] = ways
     return ways