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| - Recursive Case: The function that is called within itself, should bring you closer to the base case. | ||
| - Base Case: the base case is what stops the recursion from infinite recursion | ||
| - Activation Chain/Stack - This still isn't clear to me | ||
| - Activation Record/Call - This still isn't clear to me |
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An activiation record is a single call of the recursive method. So one "bubble" if you will.
| - Recursion: a function that calls itself (see recursion) | ||
| - Recursive Case: The function that is called within itself, should bring you closer to the base case. | ||
| - Base Case: the base case is what stops the recursion from infinite recursion | ||
| - Activation Chain/Stack - This still isn't clear to me |
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This is the series of recursive calls that have to be made to solve a recursive problem. So the chain of "bubbles".
| - Activation Chain/Stack - This still isn't clear to me | ||
| - Activation Record/Call - This still isn't clear to me | ||
| - Infinite Recursion/Stack Overflow/Stack too deep: Recursion that would go on forever | ||
| - Tail Recursion: With each evaluation of the recursive call, the running total is updated. |
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this is not correct - but we hadn't covered in class
Recursion TracingYou missed a couple definitions - ask me to explain in person if my comments don't make sense. But you did a nice job on the tracing ones! |
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Recursion Tracing
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