Challenge: Counting Money
Explore how to design and implement a greedy algorithm to calculate the minimum number of coins required to make a given amount in cents. This lesson helps you understand problem decomposition and step-by-step algorithm design to solve coin counting problems using C#. You'll practice creating efficient solutions using common coin denominations such as quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Problem statement
Given an infinite number of quarters (25 cents), dimes (10 cents), nickels (5 cents), and pennies (1 cent), implement a function to calculate the minimum number of coins to represent ...