Is Python a good language to learn about recursion in?

>>60028401
Is Python a good language to learn about recursion in?

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>>60028401
Is Python a good language to learn about recursion in?

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>>60028462

You don't need any programming language to understand recursion.

Step 1 have a base case
Step 2 have the function call on itself
Congrats you understand rcursion

I love python. Super basic and easy to understand.

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>>60028535

>>60028401
absolutely

probably one of the worst.

just install ocaml faggot.

I'd recommend a language that will do TCO for learning about recursion. If you do any sort of recursion in python it's pretty easy to blow through your stack. You can adjust your stack size if you like but that's the sort of nitty gritty detail that someone just starting out doesn't need to know.

>>60028401

High school maths is also a good place to learn about recursion.

recursion is dumb

It should only take a few minutes for an adult to learn recursion in the abstract sense. If you are looking to practice using recursive algorithms, try clojure.

>>60029668
Algorithms, 4th edition uses Java, so you might wanna try using that.

>>60029721
>>60029668
>>60028401

woops meant OP

>>60029119
Python is still missing TCO, so no it's actually a horrible language to use recursion in.

>>60029292
>recursion is dumb
Found the idiot.

>>60028401
No. Try SML or OCaml.

>>60028401
unironically, no, python is TERRIBLE for recursion.

It doesn't even have tail call elimination

>>60028426
>>60028428
>>60028462
>>60028535
>>60028719

that's not recursion at all though