A Visual Study Tool for LeetCode's House Robber Problem

05/22/2026

While I was preparing for technical interviews, I asked Claude to put together a small interactive page that visualized the classic House Robber problem from LeetCode. The result is a single self-contained page that walks through the dynamic programming approach one house at a time, fills in the dp table as you go, and lays out the UMPIRE framework I use to think aloud through problems like this.

I'm sharing it here partly as a reference for anyone working through House Robber for the first time, and partly because I kept coming back to it during prep. Watching the dp table fill in one house at a time was what made the pattern click for me.

The page is embedded below. If the iframe feels cramped, you can also open it full screen in a new tab.