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A Simple Way To Think About Recursion

http://tenaciousc.com/?p=1000

by pprov • 16 years ago

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rhizome• 16 years ago

you lost me about three paragraphs in. if "simple" relies on dropping terms like "preorder traversal" without elaboration, it ain't simple. i could tell it was probably funny, though!

motxilo• 16 years ago

Yes, that was a good point where preorder, inorder and postorder might have been introduced briefly. I liked big time this explanation as to how to mechanize your thoughts when keeping track of a recursive process.

StanDarsh• 16 years ago

I could have used this when I was first introduced to recursion.

"Recursion doesn’t know it’s recursion. Recursion doesn’t know it’s complicated"....awesome.

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