Title:

Assign Cookies

Link to LeetCode:

https://leetcode.com/problems/assign-cookies/

Specification:

Assume you are an awesome parent and want to give your children some cookies.
But, you should give each child at most one cookie.
Each child i has a greed factor gi, which is the minimum size of a cookie that the child will be content with;
and each cookie j has a size sj. If sj >= gi, we can assign the cookie j to the child i, and the child i will be content.
Your goal is to maximize the number of your content children and output the maximum number.

Note:
You may assume the greed factor is always positive.
You cannot assign more than one cookie to one child.

Examples:

Example 1:

Input: [1,2,3], [1,1]
Output: 1
Explanation:
You have 3 children and 2 cookies. The greed factors of 3 children are 1, 2, 3.
And even though you have 2 cookies, since their size is both 1, you could only make the child whose greed factor is 1 content.

Example 2:

Input: [1,2], [1,2,3]
Output: 2
Explanation:
You have 2 children and 3 cookies. The greed factors of 2 children are 1, 2.
You have 3 cookies and their sizes are big enough to gratify all of the children,

Initial Code and Signature:

public interface Distributer {
	public int findContentChildren(int[] g, int[] s) ;
}

Algorithm:

  1. Sort cookie size
  2. Sort greed factors
  3. Assign the minimum size to the minimum greed factor that matches the size
  4. Increase count
  5. Continue until all the sizes are checked or all the greed factors are assigned
  6. Return count

Run-Time Analysis:

GitHub Project:

https://github.com/m-h-s/Algorithms-Codes/tree/master/26-AssignCookies

Code:


/**
 * @author Mahsa Sadi
 * 
 * @since 2020 - 05 - 08
 * 
 * License Creative Commons
 * 
 * Copyright by Mahsa Sadi
 */



import java.util.*;
import java.util.Collections;

import ArrayOperations.*;

public class DistributerS1 implements Distributer {

	int numberOfContentChildren = 0;

	public int findContentChildren(int[] g, int[] s) {
		/**
		 * Problem: Assign Cookies
		 * 
		 * Description:
		 * Assume you are an awesome parent and want to give your children some cookies. 
		 * But, you should give each child at most one cookie. 
		 * Each child i has a greed factor gi, which is the minimum size of a cookie that the child will be content with; 
		 * and each cookie j has a size sj. 
		 * If sj >= gi, we can assign the cookie j to the child i, and the child i will be content. 
		 * Your goal is to maximize the number of your content children and output the maximum number.
		 * 
		 * Note: 
		 * You may assume the greed factor is always positive. 
		 * You cannot assign more than one cookie to one child.
		 * 
		 * 
		 * @see https://leetcode.com/problems/assign-cookies/
		 * 
		 * Solution:
		 * 
		 * 1- Sort cookie size
		 * 2- Sort greed factors
		 * 3- Assign the minimum size to the minimum Greed Factor that matches the size.
		 * 4- Increase count
		 * 5- Continue until all the sizes are checked.
		 * 6- Return count
		 *
		 */



		int i, j;
		i = j = 0;
		boolean assigned;
		int next = 0;


		Arrays.sort(g);

		Arrays.sort(s);

		while (i < s.length && next < g.length )
		{

			assigned = false;

			j = next;
			while (j < g.length && !assigned )
			{

				if (s [i] >= g [j])
				{
					this.numberOfContentChildren ++;
					assigned = true;
					next = j + 1;
				}

				else
					j++; 
			}


			i++;
		}

		return numberOfContentChildren;
	}

}