A framework for teaching recursion

  • Authors:
  • Gary Ford

  • Affiliations:
  • Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
  • Year:
  • 1982

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Abstract

Recursion is presented as a generalized control structure, with iteration being a special case. A method is described to determine when to use recursion and when to use iteration in designing an algorithm to solve a problem.