Lecture 6: Recursion
author: Eric Grimson,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
recorded by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
published: Oct. 29, 2012, recorded: January 2011, views: 2924
released under terms of: Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike (CC-BY-NC-SA)
recorded by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
published: Oct. 29, 2012, recorded: January 2011, views: 2924
released under terms of: Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike (CC-BY-NC-SA)
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This lecture finishes the discussion of dictionaries, then introduces inductive reasoning and recursion. Examples include generating the Fibonacci sequence and solving the Towers of Hanoi problem.
Topics covered: Dictionaries, modular abstraction, divide and conquer, recursion, tower of Hanoi, base case, Fibonacci sequence.
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