it's nice to have something with a crystal clear set of success parameters
This is part of what I'm enjoying too. It's sort of what I was getting at in this post, but you're right about the stark contrast with the day-job stuff being at play there.
The prof and TAs had their own go-to metaphors, but (unsuprisingly) the authors of the textbook came up with my favorite: the stack is pieces of paper. Every recursive call just adds a fresh page on top of the pile!
One of my homework problems was a recursive fibonacci method! Guess that means I'm ready for entry-level programming gigs, huh? (That was a joke. Also I don't want an entry-level programming gig.)
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This is part of what I'm enjoying too. It's sort of what I was getting at in this post, but you're right about the stark contrast with the day-job stuff being at play there.
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One of my homework problems was a recursive fibonacci method! Guess that means I'm ready for entry-level programming gigs, huh? (That was a joke. Also I don't want an entry-level programming gig.)
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