text: Find minimum steps required to reach the end of a matrix | Set | Java program to implement above approach ; 2d array to store states of dp ; array to determine whether a state has been solved before ; Function to find the minimum number of steps to reach the end of matrix ; 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 ] = 1 + Math . min ( minSteps ( i + arr [ i ] [ j ] , j , arr ) , minSteps ( i , j + arr [ i ] [ j ] , arr ) ) ; return dp [ i ] [ j ] ; } public static void main ( String [ ] args ) { int arr [ ] [ ] = { { 2 , 1 , 2 } , { 1 , 1 , 1 } , { 1 , 1 , 1 } } ; int ans = minSteps ( 0 , 0 , arr ) ; if ( ans >= 9999999 ) { System . out . println ( - 1 ) ; } else { System . out . println ( ans ) ; } } }