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It's funny. I've JUST finished spending a week or so on recursion with my students. The FIRST thing I did was have the entire class repeat after me: "Recursion
by teach 16y ago
It's funny. I've JUST finished spending a week or so on recursion with my students. The FIRST thing I did was have the entire class repeat after me: "Recursion isn't hard. It's just different."
And I've been teaching CS at the high-school level for 13(?) years now, and I've never had a student who just couldn't get recursion. On the contrary, most of the them pick it up pretty quickly. There's initial confusion, followed by the flash of insight, and then they're pretty much golden.
- calebmpeterson 16y agoAs a programmer of more than a decade who fell in love with CS in high school, thank you for teaching the topic to others!
- burgerbrain 16y agoLong shot here, but do you happen to teach at a certain engineering school in Philadelphia? I think I had a CS prof who introduced recursion with this phrase, and it sounds like the class schedule matches up...
- jinfiesto 16y agoI've found this to be the case too, I think telling students that recursion is difficult artificially limits their ability to comprehend it.