I will re-read this book a couple more times, just to add to the knowledge. This text will serve as a useful guide for anyone who wants to learn how to think and program recursively, by analyzing a wide variety of computational problems of diverse difficulty. Thanks to Al Sweigart's new book, I think I'm far better informed than I was before. Introduction to Recursive Programming provides a detailed and comprehensive introduction to recursion. Recursion does get a tad convoluted and confusing towards the middle of the book, but this is probably inevitable with the scale and complexity of the ideas within it. 'I have felt for a long time that I had a pretty good handle on the subject of recursion.

Adam DuVander, Founder of EveryDeveloper The real life projects at the end are especially informative, which is why I think. Though focused on those actively interviewing for engineering roles, the book is also a good fit for professional development, an engineering book club, or a brain tickler for your technical book shelf. In this book, Al Sweigart starts are these basics and quickly expands to include types of algorithms that benefit from recursion, such as tree traversal and divide-and-conquer. Recursion solves such recursive problems by using functions that call themselves from within their own code. While basic recursion is included in early programming curriculum, it typically stops at examples that can be reproduced with iteration. In computer science, recursion is a method of solving a computational problem where the solution depends on solutions to smaller instances of the same problem.

this book is a worthy read for a developer who wants to deepen their knowledge of advanced programming topics. By the time you finish it, you'll see recursion as a powerful technique, but also a technique usable by mere mortals.' 'This book takes the mystery out of recursion.

The recursion book