[masayune]

Is this a good resource to beat the fear of recursion out of me? I get recursion, but it’s still really uncomfortable to think about.

[chuchana]

I liked Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation. You can find its first edition online (free of charge): https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/

Apart from explanations, it also contains exercises and their solutions.

[masayune]

Woah! Thank you for the suggestion!

[panzerklein]

Just read The Little Schemer - the best book on recursion.

[masayune]

I'll check it for sure. Thanks!

[agumonkey]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17482666

[PeCaN]

learn Haskell or OCaml or something

alternatively just write more code because tbh that sounds like you just started programming

[renox]

I find this dismissive comment funny: I started programming a long time ago in BASIC then assembly then Pascal then C and I still don't like recursion. I remember having to fix a bug in a recursive code that I didn't write: my feeling is that it is more difficult to debug recursive code than normal code.