text: Find minimum steps required to reach the end of a matrix | Set 2 | Java implementation of the approach ; 2d array to store states of dp ; Array to determine whether a state has been solved before ; Function to return the minimum steps required ; Base cases ; If a state has been solved before it won 't be evaluated again ; Recurrence relation ; Driver code
code: class GFG { static int n = 3 ; static int [ ] [ ] dp = new int [ n ] [ n ] ; static int [ ] [ ] v = new int [ n ] [ n ] ; static int minSteps ( int i , int j , int arr [ ] [ ] ) { if ( i == n - 1 && j == n - 1 ) { return 0 ; } if ( i > n - 1 j > n - 1 ) { return 9999999 ; } if ( v [ i ] [ j ] == 1 ) { return dp [ i ] [ j ] ; } v [ i ] [ j ] = 1 ; dp [ i ] [ j ] = 9999999 ; for ( int k = Math . max ( 0 , arr [ i ] [ j ] + j - n + 1 ) ; k <= Math . min ( n - i - 1 , arr [ i ] [ j ] ) ; k ++ ) { dp [ i ] [ j ] = Math . min ( dp [ i ] [ j ] , minSteps ( i + k , j + arr [ i ] [ j ] - k , arr ) ) ; } dp [ i ] [ j ] ++ ; return dp [ i ] [ j ] ; } public static void main ( String [ ] args ) { int arr [ ] [ ] = { { 4 , 1 , 2 } , { 1 , 1 , 1 } , { 2 , 1 , 1 } } ; int ans = minSteps ( 0 , 0 , arr ) ; if ( ans >= 9999999 ) { System . out . println ( - 1 ) ; } else { System . out . println ( ans ) ; } } }