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Learn Recursion with Python

Offered By: Codecademy

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Python Courses Recursion Courses Code Efficiency Courses

Course Description

Overview

Recursion gives you a new perspective on problem-solving by defining a problem in terms of itself.

### Why Learn Recursion?
Recursion gives you a new perspective on problem-solving by defining a problem in terms of itself. This mind-bending concept unlocks new strategies for reducing difficult tasks into a few lines of code. The best part is recursion is a concept which can be used in almost any programming language!

### Take-Away Skills:
You'll be ready to use recursion to write clean and elegant code, and use recursion to ace whiteboarding problems!

### Note on Prerequisites:
You should be comfortable with basic Python syntax, such as functions, lists, loopings, etc.

Syllabus

  • Recursion: Conceptual: Recursion gives you a new perspective on problem-solving by defining a problem in terms of itself.

    • Lesson: Recursion: Conceptual
    • Quiz: Recursion: Conceptual
  • Recursion: Python: Recursion gives you a new perspective on problem-solving by defining a problem in terms of itself.

    • Lesson: Recursion: Python
    • Quiz: Recursion: Python
    • Lesson: Recursion vs. Iteration - Coding Throwdown

Taught by

Kenny Lin

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