
What is recursion and when should I use it? - Stack Overflow
Recursion is a tree, with branches and leaves, called parents and children respectively. When you use a recursion algorithm, you more or less consciously are building a tree from the data.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of recursion?
Mar 9, 2011 · With respect to using recursion over non-recursive methods in sorting algorithms or, for that matter, any algorithm what are its pros and cons?
Real-world examples of recursion - Stack Overflow
Sep 20, 2008 · There is no recursion in the real-world. Recursion is a mathematical abstraction. You can model lots of things using recursion. In that sense, Fibonacci is absolutely real-world, …
Recursion vs loops - Stack Overflow
Mar 19, 2009 · Recursion is used to express an algorithm that is naturally recursive in a form that is more easily understandable. A "naturally recursive" algorithm is one where the answer is …
Understanding how recursive functions work - Stack Overflow
Sep 5, 2014 · Recursion started making sense to me when I stopped reading what others say about it or seeing it as something I can avoid and just wrote code. I found a problem with a …
list - Basics of recursion in Python - Stack Overflow
May 13, 2015 · Tail Call Recursion Once you understand how the above recursion works, you can try to make it a little bit better. Now, to find the actual result, we are depending on the value of …
performance - Recursion or Iteration? - Stack Overflow
Jun 24, 2011 · Recursion has a disadvantage that the algorithm that you write using recursion has O (n) space complexity. While iterative aproach have a space complexity of O (1).This is the …
algorithm - What is tail recursion? - Stack Overflow
Aug 29, 2008 · Tail recursion optimization is to remove call stack for the tail recursion call, and instead do a jump, like in a while loop. But if you do use the return value of a recursive call …
Convert recursion to iteration - Stack Overflow
37 Strive to make your recursive call Tail Recursion (recursion where the last statement is the recursive call). Once you have that, converting it to iteration is generally pretty easy.
Understanding recursion in the context of Towers of Hanoi
I'm having trouble understanding recursion. I am trying to solve Towers of Hanoi. How does calling the same function from within itself helps me find the solution for the Towers of Hanoi …