So far so good, but what has all of this got to do with something far less familiar – recursion? Recursion is just another way of repeating things. It’s simple at first but it has a habit of becoming ...

While not an algorithm itself, the technique of recursion is used within algorithms – particularly divide-and-conquer algorithms. It is an advanced idea and potentially confusing. The status of ...

A recursive call is 'a function calling itself during its execution.' The three axes to memorize are 'stopping condition, ...