Problem:
Score : 300 points

Problem Statement

There are N people standing in a row from west to east.
Each person is facing east or west.
The directions of the people is given as a string S of length N.
The i-th person from the west is facing east if S_i = E, and west if S_i = W.

You will appoint one of the N people as the leader, then command the rest of them to face in the direction of the leader.
Here, we do not care which direction the leader is facing.

The people in the row hate to change their directions, so you would like to select the leader so that the number of people who have to change their directions is minimized.
Find the minimum number of people who have to change their directions.

Constraints

2 \leq N \leq 3 \times 10^5

|S| = N

S_i is E or W.

Input

Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:

N
S

Output

Print the minimum number of people who have to change their directions.

Sample Input 1

5
WEEWW

Sample Output 1

1

Assume that we appoint the third person from the west as the leader.
Then, the first person from the west needs to face east and has to turn around.
The other people do not need to change their directions, so the number of people who have to change their directions is 1 in this case.
It is not possible to have 0 people who have to change their directions, so the answer is 1.

Sample Input 2

12
WEWEWEEEWWWE

Sample Output 2

4

Sample Input 3

8
WWWWWEEE

Sample Output 3

3

Solution in Java8 (OpenJDK 1.8.0) (judge verdict: Wrong Answer)

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.net.ConnectException;
import java.rmi.dgc.Lease;
import java.util.ArrayDeque;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Deque;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
import java.util.Objects;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.Stack;
import java.util.TreeMap;
import java.util.TreeSet;

import static java.util.Comparator.*;

public class Main {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		Main main = new Main();
		main.solve();
		main.out.close();
	}

	// ======================================================================
	public void solve() {
		int N = ni();
		char[] C = ns().toCharArray();
		int[] L = new int[N+1];
		int[] R = new int[N+1];
		for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
			if(C[i] == 'W') {
				L[i+1] = L[i] + 1;
				R[i+1] = R[i];
			} else {
				L[i+1] = L[i];
				R[i+1] = R[i] + 1;
			}
		}
		int ans = 1000000, wk;
		for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
			wk = L[i] - L[0] + R[N] - R[i];
			ans = Math.min(ans, wk);
		}
		out.println(ans);
	}

	// ------------------------------------------
	// ライブラリ
	// ------------------------------------------
	// Print
	private PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(System.out);

	// Scanner
	private FastScanner scan = new FastScanner();

	int ni() {
		return scan.nextInt();
	}

	int[] ni(int n) {
		int[] a = new int[n];
		for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
			a[i] = ni();
		}
		return a;
	}

	int[][] ni(int y, int x) {
		int[][] a = new int[y][x];
		for (int i = 0; i < y; i++) {
			for (int j = 0; j < x; j++) {
				a[i][j] = ni();
			}
		}
		return a;
	}

	long nl() {
		return scan.nextLong();
	}

	long[] nl(int n) {
		long[] a = new long[n];
		for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
			a[i] = nl();
		}
		return a;
	}

	long[][] nl(int y, int x) {
		long[][] a = new long[y][x];
		for (int i = 0; i < y; i++) {
			for (int j = 0; j < x; j++) {
				a[i][j] = nl();
			}
		}
		return a;
	}

	String ns() {
		return scan.next();
	}

	String[] ns(int n) {
		String[] a = new String[n];
		for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
			a[i] = ns();
		}
		return a;
	}

	String[][] ns(int y, int x) {
		String[][] a = new String[y][x];
		for (int i = 0; i < y; i++) {
			for (int j = 0; j < x; j++) {
				a[i][j] = ns();
			}
		}
		return a;
	}
}

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;
	}

	public boolean hasNext() {
		while (hasNextByte() && !isPrintableChar(buffer[ptr]))
			ptr++;
		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() {
		long nl = nextLong();
		if (nl < Integer.MIN_VALUE || nl > Integer.MAX_VALUE)
			throw new NumberFormatException();
		return (int) nl;
	}

	public double nextDouble() {
		return Double.parseDouble(next());
	}
}