Breaking the Records - HackerRank- Problem Solving in Java

Difficulty : EASY

Problem :

Maria plays college basketball and wants to go pro. Each season she maintains a record of her play. She tabulates the number of times she breaks her season record for most points and least points in a game. Points scored in the first game establish her record for the season, and she begins counting from there.

Visual representation of the table

Game	Score	Minimum	Maximum	Count Min	Count Max
0	12	12	12	0	0
1	24	12	24	0	1
2	10	10	24	1	1
3	24	10	24	1	1
Ouput :		[1 , 2]

Imporant Points to note

• We canculate the record determining her performance on Game 0(which is highlited in green) which will the value of minimum and maximum.
• We change the value of maximum or minimum only if her score breaks our current record of maximim or minimum.
• in case she breaks record then we increment the counter respectively.
• return the Count max and Count min in the same order as a List.

Algorithm

• inputs recived : List score ,int games
• Set Min and Max to scores 1st element or 0th index element.
• Loop through the scores from the 2nd element or the 1st index till the scores.size()-1
• inside the above loop check if the value of current index is larger maximum if so then increase the counter of the maximum and get the value of the maximum to the current value.
• else if statement to check if the value is smaller than current minimum if so then increase the counter of the minimum and set the value of minimum to the current value
• outside the loop create an array and add the two value in the order of maxcount then min count and add the list to the return statement.

I Highly recommend you dont go through the below code now but try to solve it in your own to get the ability to solve problems but im just pasting it here for those who hasnt manged to find the solution despite many trys

List brakingTheRecord(List score)
{

 int currentMax = score.get(0);
 int currentMin = score.get(0);

int surpassed = 0;
int backlogged = 0;

 for(int index = 0 ;index < score.size(); index++)
 {
  if(score.get(index) > currentMax)
  {
   surpassed++;
   currentMax = score.get(index);
  }
  else if(score.get(index) < currentMin)
  {
    backlogged++;
    currentMin = score.get(index);
  }

}
List result = new ArrayList<>();
result.add( surpassed);
result.add( backlogged);
System.out.println(surpassed +" "+ backlogged);
return result;
}