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by addcninblue
1462 days ago
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My background is in teaching CS1 courses in undergrad (as a TA). There have been various studies that agree with you: teaching recursion before iteration seems to have benefits! From my experience, it seems to be extremely unpopular among teachers due to the claim that recursion is "useless in industry". My personal opinion is that learning recursion first is probably a step in the right direction, but I'm curious to hear your thoughts (in terms of their claims of the usefulness of recursion in industry). |
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From my experience its true. I have never written recursive code in my 12 years of professional experience (primarily JS).
But during interviews, I have written recursive solutions many times to solve some of the harder problems.