Do the DP two times, one time starts from house 0 to house n-2 and one time starts from house 1 to house n-1. Return the maximum result.
class Solution {
public:
int rob(vector<int>& nums) {
if(nums.empty())
return 0;
int n=nums.size();
if(n==1)
return nums[0];
int max1,max2;
vector<int> dp(n,0);
dp[0]=dp[1]=nums[0];
for(int i=2;i<n-1;i++)
dp[i]=max(dp[i-1],dp[i-2]+nums[i]);
max1=dp[n-2];
dp[1]=nums[1];
dp[2]=max(nums[1],nums[2]);
for(int i=3;i<n;i++)
dp[i]=max(dp[i-1],dp[i-2]+nums[i]);
max2=dp[n-1];
return max(max1,max2);
}
};