18. Recursion
O! thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint.
—William Shakespeare
It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
—Lewis Carroll
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
—Soren Kierkegaard
Objectives
In this chapter you’ll:
Learn the concept of recursion.
Write and use recursive methods.
Determine the base case and recursion step in a recursive algorithm.
Learn how recursive ...
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