90-Day Coding Challenge: Backward Greedy Approach to Jump Game

Day 11: 90-Day Coding Challenge 🚀 Continuing the journey by strengthening problem-solving skills and exploring different approaches to array-based problems. Today’s problem was the Jump Game. The goal was to determine whether it’s possible to reach the last index of an array, where each element represents the maximum jump length from that position. Instead of the usual forward traversal, I implemented a backward greedy approach: • Started from the last index as the target • Traversed the array from right to left • Checked if the current index can reach the “target” • If yes, updated the target to the current index • Repeated until reaching the start If the target becomes index 0, it means we can reach the end successfully ✅ This approach efficiently reduces the problem by continuously shrinking the goal position. Time Complexity: O(n) Space Complexity: O(1) Today’s learning highlights: ✅ Explored an alternative greedy strategy (backward traversal) ✅ Learned how to reduce problems by shifting the goalpost ✅ Strengthened understanding of reachability problems ✅ Improved thinking beyond standard forward approaches It was interesting to see how the same problem can be solved from different directions with equal efficiency 💡 Excited to keep learning and improving! #90DaysOfCode #DataStructures #Algorithms #Greedy #CodingJourney #Python #ProblemSolving

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