> Does everyone really need to know about recursion? Yes, and I'd argue indirection as well. If you teach coding without recursion, you're just teaching basic

> Does everyone really need to know about recursion? Yes, and I'd argue indirection as well. If you teach coding without recursion, you're just teaching basic logic coupled with arithmetic, we have classes for that already. (As an aside, I think iteration should be introduced as a special case to recursion.)