Marisol Lopez - Recursion Tracing #44
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| - Base Case | ||
| - Activation Chain/Stack | ||
| - Recursion: Describes when we have a method that calls itself. | ||
| - Recursive Case: A part of the method that happens over and over again. |
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The part of the method that calls itself, rather.
| - Recursive Case: A part of the method that happens over and over again. | ||
| - Base Case: The situation for which the solution can be states non-recursively. | ||
| - Activation Chain/Stack: The chain that results when going through recursive method. | ||
| - Activation Record/Call |
| - Infinite Recursion/Stack Overflow/Stack too deep | ||
| - Tail Recursion | ||
| - Infinite Recursion/Stack Overflow/Stack too deep: When a method will never stop because it will never satisfy method. | ||
| - Tail Recursion: Recursive call is the last thing executed by the function |
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We didn't go over this in class. We may cover it later, but in this moment, it's not important that you know this.
| - Activation Record/Call | ||
| - Infinite Recursion/Stack Overflow/Stack too deep | ||
| - Tail Recursion | ||
| - Infinite Recursion/Stack Overflow/Stack too deep: When a method will never stop because it will never satisfy method. |
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When a method will never stop because it will never satisfy a base case
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