Chapter 11: Dynamic Programming

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to recompute it."

🏛️ The Academic View

DP is about breaking problems into overlapping sub-problems.

🏗️ The Engineering Reality

DP is simply Caching. It is the art of trading Memory (RAM) for Time (CPU).

Key Topics: * Memoization: Decorating recursive functions to cache results. * Tabulation: The iterative "Bottom-Up" approach to avoid recursion limits.