[sumukh1]

Here are some related links:

Demo of Python Tutor being used in a computer science textbook: http://www.composingprograms.com/pages/17-recursive-function...

The textbook above is from the introductory computer science course at UC Berkeley (http://cs61a.org)

Previous Discussion (~3 years ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4601478

If you are interested in the technical details of CPython, the author posted a mini course on technical details about CPython here: http://pgbovine.net/cpython-internals.htm

1 hour podcast that describes the course: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/22/cpython-internals-and...

[pgbovine]

thanks for the links!

i should do a much better job consolidating and advertising all of these resources, but time is never on my side :) so i figure that i'll just keep putting more stuff up and let google figure it out for now.

[fiatjaf]

Do people really need all that text (in the textbook) to understand what a recursive function is?

[pgbovine]

Yes, recursion is an extremely challenging topic for novices. Beware of the expert blind spot, in which experts such as yourself drastically underestimate how difficult concepts are for novices to learn:

http://teaching.colostate.edu/tips/tip.cfm?tipid=181