Top-Down Recursion: A New Way of Thinking

A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, Second Edition — Pragmatic Programmers (107 / 226)

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This brings us to the central point of this chapter: recursion shines when implementing a top-down approach because going top down offers a new mental strategy for tackling a problem. That is, a recursive top-down approach allows one to think about a problem in a completely different way.