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Alternative to the recursive function question, was also one testing mathematic induction (1999). I didn't know enough CS or Scheme to get into CS61A, but they
by etse 4y ago
Alternative to the recursive function question, was also one testing mathematic induction (1999). I didn't know enough CS or Scheme to get into CS61A, but they were fine with getting the underlying concept in a language that was safer to assume people were familiar. (I wasn't lucky enough to have any CS or programming courses in high school unlike most of my classmates.)
- schoen 4y agoOh yeah, I think that was on the 1997 test too... I think it may have been something like "please write a recursive function in the language of your choice, or prove a property of integers by mathematical induction". I don't remember if there were suggestions (like factorial for recursion or a summation formula for induction). At that time it was taught by Brian Harvey. I liked him a ton. I know there have been other excellent 61A teachers, too.