C++ Sub sequence Exercise - c++

Question

I was assigned a "project" where I should create a C++ program to find the largest possible sum of two sub sequences. The user inputs N (array length), K (length of each sub sequence) and N numbers representing the array. The two sub sequences can touch but can't override each other e.g. 1 5 20 20 20 15 10 1 1 1 should output 90 ((5+20+20)+(20+15_10)) and not 115 ((20+20+20)+(20+20+15)).
My code until now is:
#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
int N, K, MaxN;
cin >> N;
cin >> K;
int Pi[N];
MaxN = N - K + 1;
int Word[MaxN];
int MaxSum;
for(int nn=0; nn<N; nn++) {
cin >> Pi[nn];
}
for(int y=0;y<MaxN;y++) {
Word[y] = 0;
}
for(int j=0; j<MaxN; j++) {
for(int l=0; l<K; l++) {
Word[j] = Word[j] + Pi[j+l];
}
}
sort(Word, Word + MaxN);
MaxSum = Word[MaxN-2] + Word[MaxN-1];
cout << MaxSum;
return 0;
}
Which is correct only in the case where the 2 sub sequences don't interfere with each other e.g. in an array such as 2 4 15 12 10 1 1 20 4 10 which outputs 71.
Thank you all in advance.

Answer 1

This is solution:
precalculate prefixes and suffixes
iterate end of the first subarray
iterate begin of the second subarray, but start from the end of first sub. ar. + 1
we have sum of numbers on interval from 0 to *end* = prefix[end], but we are interested only in interval [end - k, k], so simply subtract prefix[end] - prefix[end - k - 1]
[0 .. end-k-1, end-k .. end]
The same approach for the second subarray: sum2 = suffix[begin] - suffix[begin + i + 1]
then compare with the previous answer
So we just brute-force all possible sub-arrays which not intersect and find the max their sum
#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
int N,K,MaxN;
cin >> N;
cin >> K;
int Pi[N];
MaxN=N-K+1;
int Word[MaxN];
int MaxSum;
for(int nn=0;nn<N;nn++){
cin >> Pi[nn];
}
int prefix[N];
int sufix[N];
for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
prefix[i] = sufix[i] = 0;
}
for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
if (i == 0)
prefix[i] = Pi[i];
else
prefix[i] = Pi[i] + prefix[i - 1];
}
for (int i = N - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
if (i == N - 1)
sufix[i] = Pi[i];
else
sufix[i] = Pi[i] + sufix[i + 1];
}
int ans = 0;
for (int i = K - 1; i < MaxN; i++) {
for (int j = i + 1; j < MaxN; j++) {
int x = prefix[i] - (i - K >= 0 ? prefix[i - K] : 0);
int y = sufix[j] - (j + K < N ? sufix[j + K] : 0);
ans = max(ans, x + y);
}
}
cout << ans;
return 0;
}