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Quick Recursion
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Ideal for programming students and self-taught coders looking to grasp recursion quickly, as well as any developers eager to enhance their skills with an accessible guide to recursive programming.
Recursion is considered to be an “advanced” topic. It shouldn’t be. While this little volume covers a number of advanced topics that involve recursion - tail recursion, pruning, recursive data structures, the use of accumulators, and backtracking - this book shows how recursion itself is actually rather simple.
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Recursion is the best tool for working with trees and graphs. But perhaps you’ve studied recursion and decided it’s too complicated. You just can’t think that way. That limits the kind of programming you can do.
Good news! Recursion is actually easy. It’s just badly taught.
See, many instructors talk about how the computer does it. They go on and on about what happens at each level of the recursion and how each level relates to other levels. The problem is that you can’t think in multiple levels. Nobody can. And you don’t have to.
This book will show you how you can write recursive programs. Once you understand a few simple rules, you will wonder why you ever thought recursion was complicated. You’ll be able to write recursive programs quickly and easily.
Well, as quick and easy as programming ever is, anyway.
Quick Recursion by David Matuszek offers an approachable way to grasp the concepts, enabling you to harness the power of recursion effectively.
Series: Quick Programming
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Quick Recursion
Recursion is the best tool for working with trees and graphs. But perhaps you’ve studied recursion and decided it’s too complicated. You just can’t think that way. That limits the kind of programming you can do. Good news! Recursion is actually easy. It’s just badly taught. See, many instructors talk about how the computer does it. They go on and...Hardback$19600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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Praised by Martha Palmer, a respected professor in linguistics and computer science, the book is lauded for its clear, concise language and logical progression from basic to advanced concepts. It is recommended for both computer science students and self-taught programmers seeking a quick and effective primer on recursion.
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ISBN: 9781032417592
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 22 February 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Illustration: 14 Line drawings, black and white; 14 Illustrations, black and white
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 138.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 290g
Pages: 160
About the Author
David L. Matuszek was Director of the Masters in Computer and Information Technology course at the University of Pennsylvania, USA (2001-2017). With 40 years teaching experience, and 45 years programming experience, David is skilled in both the design of innovative software systems and in teaching others how to master programming languages in an accessible and engaging way.
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