Kyle Shevlin • 1/27/2025

Fun Coding Exercise: Pyramid Slide Down

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The article details a coding exercise from Codewars where the goal is to find the maximum sum path from the top to the bottom of a number pyramid. It explains the author's initial thought process, the pitfalls of a graph-based approach, and the elegant dynamic programming solution that works from the bottom of the pyramid upwards.

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