The topic of recursion can be intimidating and daunting at first to newcomers, and one can get frustrated and find difficulties wrapping their heads around this topic. 🤔
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Prof. Eric Grimson framed recursion in a straightforward and easy to understand way. He also introduced a simple yet powerful concept that goes with recursion called memoization. 🤯
One can think of memoization is essentially a list of performed tasks and its values, and if the task at hand is in the list, just get the value; else add the task and value to the list.😀
Notes:
Here is a great resource for Python beginners on recursion:
Recursion in Python(A Gentle Introduction)
Elijah Jeremiah L. Barba ・ Dec 16 '19
Jokes aside, after watching the video, you're at least a little confident with recursion👏👏👏 Happy Coding!
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Cool post-Elijah!, Memoization works great for recursion! Although it kinda sounds like Tweety bird pronouncing memorization the same way he pronounces "I thought I thaw a putty cat". Nevertheless here is how you can implement it in Python.
Instead of doing this which consumes a lot of memory:
You add memoization to optimize the recursion:
Or you can also use a builtin python tool:
Here is the complete video explaining it clearly, plus it is where I got this code from.