Problem:
Score : 300 points

Problem Statement

In a flower bed, there are N flowers, numbered 1,2,......,N. Initially, the heights of all flowers are 0.
You are given a sequence h=\{h_1,h_2,h_3,......\} as input. You would like to change the height of Flower k to h_k for all k (1 \leq k \leq N), by repeating the following "watering" operation:

Specify integers l and r. Increase the height of Flower x by 1 for all x such that l \leq x \leq r.

Find the minimum number of watering operations required to satisfy the condition.

Constraints

1 \leq N \leq 100

0 \leq h_i \leq 100

All values in input are integers.

Input

Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:

N
h_1 h_2 h_3 ...... h_N

Output

Print the minimum number of watering operations required to satisfy the condition.

Sample Input 1

4
1 2 2 1

Sample Output 1

2

The minimum number of watering operations required is 2.
One way to achieve it is:

Perform the operation with (l,r)=(1,3).

Perform the operation with (l,r)=(2,4).

Sample Input 2

5
3 1 2 3 1

Sample Output 2

5

Sample Input 3

8
4 23 75 0 23 96 50 100

Sample Output 3

221

Solution in Java8 (OpenJDK 1.8.0) (judge verdict: Accepted)

import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;

public class Main{
  static int get_maxindex(int[] array){
    int max =0;
    int max_i=0;
    int i=0;
    for(int a : array){
      if(a>max){
        max = a;
        max_i = i;
      }
      i+=1;
    }
    return max_i;
  }

  public static void main(String[] args){
    Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
    int n = sc.nextInt();
    int[] flowers = new int[n];
    for(int i=0; i<n; i++){
      flowers[i] = sc.nextInt();
    }
    int max_index = get_maxindex(flowers);
    int count =0;
    while(flowers[max_index]!=0){
    int j=0;
     while(j<n){
      if(flowers[j]==0){j++;}
      else{
        count+=1;
        while(j<n&&flowers[j]!=0){
          flowers[j] = flowers[j] -1;
          j+=1;
        }
      }
     }
    }
    System.out.println(count);


  }
}