[DonaldPShimoda]

> Recursion Fairy

I mentioned this elsewhere but figured I'd bring it up here since you're the author.

I've tried explaining recursion in a lot of ways like this, such as "just assume it will work", "trust yourself", and "turn off your brain". (The first two are paraphrases from Matthew Flatt, the latter is from Will Byrd.)

I think "Recursion Fairy" is my favorite way to phrase the same idea. I think there's something about the nature of invoking a sense of magic in the phrasing that might help people really believe that it's okay to just let the recursion do its thing and not think about it too much. I'll definitely be using "Recursion Fairy" when (if) I end up explaining recursion again.

Thanks for making your material available for free! Cheers!