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The recursive book of recursion takes the reader into the more advanced subject of recursion. Al does a great job of defining concepts such as the “stack” and “frames” in such a way that they are easy to relate to how a program works inside a computer... Read More
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Al handles this task with ease, thoroughly covering the gamut with his trademark accessible language, clear examples, and concise writing.
Its a must have book for any software engineer who is looking to build a very strong foundation on recursion and dp.
It references "the fact that the call stack doesn't exist in source code is the main reason recursion is so confusing to beginn... Read More
This is split into two halves- the learning half and the projects half.
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Its value also stems from its ability to stretch you just a little bit further, to make think just a little bit differently, to... Read More
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With that out of the way, he then devotes an entire chapter to comparing recursion and iteration, demonstrating that in the vas... Read More
Recursion is compared to iteration, and examples are shown where both approaches are shown and critiqued.
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- This product had a total of 41 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 16 2024.
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Al starts explaining what recursion is with multiple well thought out but not overly complex examples expounds upon that with examples of stacks call stacks and functions etc
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Then it becomes the question of to use or not to use recursion and the reasons for
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This is split into two halves the learning half and the projects half
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In the first half al breaks down the structure of a recursive function and a few of the practical ways theyre used
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I had fairly low expectations of this book going in since ive been in industry for a while and though familiar with recursion dont use it much
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Plus this is the first 34bilingual34 programming book ive ever seen python javascript
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He starts with the full result then walks through building it piece by piece
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Before reading this book i was imitated with the recursion algorithm and avoided using it
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