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.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;

public class Main{
	static FastScanner sc = new FastScanner();
	static PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(System.out);
	
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		int n = sc.nextInt();
		int h [] = new int [n+1];
		
		if (n==1)
			out.println(sc.nextInt());
		
		else {
			for (int i=1; i<=n; i++)
				h[i] = sc.nextInt();
			
			int l = 1;
			int r = 2;
			int min = 0;
			int ans = 0;
			boolean check = true;
			
			while (check) {
				l = 1;
				while (l<n) {
					if  (h[l]!=0) 
						break;

					l++;
					
					if (l==n) {
						if (h[l]==0) 
							check = false;
						break;
					}
				}
				
				if (check==false)
					continue;
				
				min = h[l];
				r = l;
				
				while (r<n) {
					if  (h[r]==0) { 
						r = Math.max(l, r-1);
						break;
					}
					
					min = Math.min(min, h[r++]);
					
					if (r==n) {
						if (h[r]!=0) 
							min = Math.min(min, h[r]);
						
						else
							r = Math.max(l, r-1);
						
						break;
					}
				}
				
				for (int i=l; i<=r; i++) 
					h[i]-=min;
				ans+=min;
			
			}	
			out.println(ans);	
		}
        out.flush();
	}
	static class FastScanner {
	    private final InputStream in = System.in;
	    private final byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
	    private int ptr = 0;
	    private int buflen = 0;

	    private boolean hasNextByte() {
	      if (ptr < buflen) {
	        return true;
	      } else {
	        ptr = 0;
	        try {
	          buflen = in.read(buffer);
	        } catch (IOException e) {
	          e.printStackTrace();
	        }
	        if (buflen <= 0) {
	          return false;
	        }
	      }
	      return true;
	    }

	    private int readByte() {
	      if (hasNextByte()) return buffer[ptr++];
	      else return -1;
	    }

	    private static boolean isPrintableChar(int c) {
	      return 33 <= c && c <= 126;
	    }

	    private void skipUnprintable() {
	      while (hasNextByte() && !isPrintableChar(buffer[ptr])) ptr++;
	    }

	    public boolean hasNext() {
	      skipUnprintable();
	      return hasNextByte();
	    }

	    public String next() {
	      if (!hasNext()) throw new NoSuchElementException();
	      StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
	      int b = readByte();
	      while (isPrintableChar(b)) {
	        sb.appendCodePoint(b);
	        b = readByte();
	      }
	      return sb.toString();
	    }

	    public long nextLong() {
	      if (!hasNext()) throw new NoSuchElementException();
	      long n = 0;
	      boolean minus = false;
	      int b = readByte();
	      if (b == '-') {
	        minus = true;
	        b = readByte();
	      }
	      if (b < '0' || '9' < b) {
	        throw new NumberFormatException();
	      }
	      while (true) {
	        if ('0' <= b && b <= '9') {
	          n *= 10;
	          n += b - '0';
	        } else if (b == -1 || !isPrintableChar(b)) {
	          return minus ? -n : n;
	        } else {
	          throw new NumberFormatException();
	        }
	        b = readByte();
	      }
	    }

	    public int nextInt() {
	      return (int) nextLong();
	    }

	    public int[] nextIntArray(int N, boolean oneBased) {
	      if (oneBased) {
	        int[] array = new int[N + 1];
	        for (int i = 1; i <= N; i++) {
	          array[i] = sc.nextInt();
	        }
	        return array;
	      } else {
	        int[] array = new int[N];
	        for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
	          array[i] = sc.nextInt();
	        }
	        return array;
	      }
	    }

	    public long[] nextLongArray(int N, boolean oneBased) {
	      if (oneBased) {
	        long[] array = new long[N + 1];
	        for (int i = 1; i <= N; i++) {
	          array[i] = sc.nextLong();
	        }
	        return array;
	      } else {
	        long[] array = new long[N];
	        for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
	          array[i] = sc.nextLong();
	        }
	        return array;
	      }
	    }
	  }

	}