Recursion

What Is Recursion? Recursion is when a method calls itself to solve a smaller version of the same problem. Every recursive method needs two ingredients: - A base case : the simplest input where the answer is known directly, with no further calls. This stops th

8 lessons, each with runnable code in the browser.

1. Base Case and Recursive Case
2. The Call Stack
3. Tracing Recursion and Return Values
4. Recursion on Strings
5. Recursion on Arrays
6. Recursive Binary Search
7. Recursive Sorting: Merge Sort
8. Recursive Insertion and Putting It Together

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