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@jackiewatanabe jackiewatanabe commented Mar 27, 2017

Recursion Tracing

Thanks for doing some brain yoga. You are now submitting this assignment!

Comprehension Questions

Question Answer
Did you define all the recursion terms? yes, but I had to google many of them, and still don't feel like I quite understand all of them
How do you feel about tracing recursive problems? (good, bad, ugly, neutral) so-so?
Would you like help/follow up about recursion? yes

@jackiewatanabe jackiewatanabe changed the title created txt file with answers Stacks - Jackie - Recursion Tracing Mar 27, 2017
- Activation Chain/Stack -> all the levels of each time a recursive method is called until it hits the base case.
- Activation Record/Call -> the temporary storage for each level of recursion
- Infinite Recursion/Stack Overflow/Stack too deep -> when a case goes on forever
- Tail Recursion -> a recursive method with an end

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This one isn't correct, but we didn't cover it in class.

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Recursion Tracing

All your answers look good! You said you'd like follow up. Want to schedule a half hour with me to try a problem together? Perhaps one day at lunch? Slack me if so!

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