Tue Nov 27

Aside ...the perils of object oriented coding

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• Design Patterns (wikipedia)

recursion

Continue discussion of recursion.

• textbook binary search code
• my recursion examples

Just for fun :

• http://www.contextfreeart.org/
  • spiral
  • fern
  • arboreal tree
  • foggy tree
  • fractal flower
  • ancient script
• Documentation :
  • shape adjustments
  • path declarations
• Summary :
  • cheatsheet

Recursion Class Exercise :

Write a recursive function that finds the maximum value of a list.
The idea is to think of a list recursively as 
  (list) = (first_element, list)
and so max(list) = max( first_element, max(list) )
What is the stopping condition ?