Dynamic Programming Approaches to Knapsack Problems for Coding Competitions
01 Knapsack Problem
Problem Statement
Given item_count items and a knapsack with capacity capacity, each item has a weight w and value val. Calculate the maximum total value achievable without exceeding the knapsack capacity.
Input Example:
5 20
1 6
2 5
3 8
5 15
3 3
Output Example:
37
Solution Idea
The 01 knapsack problem restricts each item ...
Posted on Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:11:09 +0000 by chrisdarby