Episode from the podcast Programming Throwdown
Episode
163: Recursion
Released Monday, August 14th 2023 1 hr 29 min
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Patrick and Jason break down recursion as a practical problem-solving technique rather than a classroom trick. They cover base cases, recursive steps, common pitfalls such as nontermination and stack limits, and real applications in trees, graphs, and divide-and-conquer algorithms.
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