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London | 25-SDC-July | Andrei Filippov | Sprint 2 | Improve code with caches #30

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improved fibonacci
Droid-An Oct 13, 2025
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improved making change with cache
Droid-An Oct 13, 2025
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actually done making change improvement
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9 changes: 8 additions & 1 deletion Sprint-2/improve_with_caches/fibonacci/fibonacci.py
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@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
cache = {}


def fibonacci(n):
if n <= 1:
return n
return fibonacci(n - 1) + fibonacci(n - 2)
if n not in cache:
cache[n] = fibonacci(n - 1) + fibonacci(n - 2)
return cache[n]
else:
return cache[n]
12 changes: 11 additions & 1 deletion Sprint-2/improve_with_caches/making_change/making_change.py
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Expand Up @@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ def ways_to_make_change(total: int) -> int:
return ways_to_make_change_helper(total, [200, 100, 50, 20, 10, 5, 2, 1])


cache = {}


def ways_to_make_change_helper(total: int, coins: List[int]) -> int:
"""
Helper function for ways_to_make_change to avoid exposing the coins parameter to callers.
Expand All @@ -26,7 +29,14 @@ def ways_to_make_change_helper(total: int, coins: List[int]) -> int:
if total_from_coins == total:
ways += 1
else:
intermediate = ways_to_make_change_helper(total - total_from_coins, coins=coins[coin_index+1:])
key = (total - total_from_coins, tuple(coins[coin_index + 1 :]))
if key not in cache:
cache[key] = ways_to_make_change_helper(
total - total_from_coins, coins=coins[coin_index + 1 :]
)
intermediate = cache[key]
else:
intermediate = cache[key]
ways += intermediate
count_of_coin += 1
return ways