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Stacks - Jackie - Recursion Tracing #18

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@jackiewatanabe jackiewatanabe commented Mar 27, 2017 •
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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
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- 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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