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Interestingly enough, in curriculums that start out with functional languages (e.g. Scheme) students have little trouble with recursion... and then consider ite
by oniTony 16y ago
Interestingly enough, in curriculums that start out with functional languages (e.g. Scheme) students have little trouble with recursion... and then consider iterative loops to be "hard".
- Sherlock 15y agoWow, that's surprising, I'd love to hear about some (anecdotal) evidence supporting this.
- eru 15y agoI heard Matthias Felleisen saying the same.
- SkyMarshal 15y agoIn college they tried to teach us recursion using C and I didn't get it. Later I discovered The Little Schemer and SICP and it just clicked. It's easier to do in Scheme/Lisp, and those books also explain it better. There's one anecdote. :)