How to Understand Any Recursive Code

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How can you possibly learn how to use recursion effectively if you don't understand recursive code?
The short answer is that you can't!
One of the most important skills to master if you want to become truly great at recursion is learning how to trace through recursive code. In this video I show you how to do exactly that.
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@NonaBona 5 лет назад

You lost me at the combinations part...

@mickeymacke1780 2 года назад

requires discrete mathematics knowledge + java

@zebra9389 3 года назад

Thanks for making it so clear. A lot of videos have shown that both (n-1) + (n-2) gets put to the stack in the first occurrence which is very confusing. But this video make it clear that (n-1) gets called first all the way till it reaches the return statement.

@lil_jeke 4 месяца назад

Thanks for reiterating this I understood it before I finished the first 1mins of the video.

@Ashley-sd5xn 4 года назад

Recursion has always confused me and this video finally made it click! Thank you so much!!

@vermilinguas 3 года назад

I spent all the day in trying to figure out what double recursive call is. Then I found your video and all the things became clear ;) Thanks!

@weiw1028 3 года назад

Perfect. "How to recurse on Find all combination" is exactly what I'm looking for!

@the.coderbro 3 года назад

don't remember how long I have been searching for such a tutorial. Thanks, men.

@nickwu5317 4 года назад

this is exactly the way I expected to see an answer to the order of operation of a recursion, thank you! great ! 03:00

@lucario4399 3 года назад

one of the best recurrsive explanation i have had in my life thankyou ,so much

@mohammedfaraaz10 3 года назад

Thanks man! For people not able to understand the combination problem, I would suggest first understand the code, next draw a tree on a paper and then solve it on your own. This will help you understand recursion better. Good Luck ;)

@ghazanfarabbas4187 3 года назад

Super beautiful lecture I ever seen about recursion. This tutor definitely deserve, millions likes.

@samyuktharajkumaran8363 8 месяцев назад

The most lucid explanation of recursion that is broken down into understanding it as chunks. Instead of groups of wholes which is sometimes difficult for even intermediate programmers to follow.

@xXTomeloXx 3 года назад

This just made a problem I was trying to solve with graphs more understandable! Thanks

@NonDomForever 3 года назад

That first part is the best explanation I've seen to date

@prek191 4 года назад

In combinations, you said to not look at code and perform recursion via whiteboarding. But your explanation is just a narration of the whole code and dry running it. I think an explanation with fewer variables and more tree traversal like the one in the Fibonacci series would be much more helpful and easy to understand.

@maxbultman7963 4 года назад

nah this one was exactly what I needed

@xyzabc917 2 года назад

Thanks for providing that computerised chart at the end. That helped a lot to make things clearer.

@geekyprogrammer4831 5 лет назад

Wooaw! You really deserve more viewers for this!

@samgavis-hughson9994 5 лет назад

Thanks! (I agree 😂)

@xyzabc917 2 года назад

I think there's an error in the combinations part, but I am not sure since no one else pointed it out, so please correct me if I am wrong but there's no function declared combinationsPassed in the code. Shouldn't the name of the second function and the function being called inside the first function be combinationsPassed?

@ByteByByte 2 года назад

yep you're right

@m.khanmohamadi9815 2 года назад

i have already spent lots of time for understanding recursive function then when i found this i told myself (wow). thanks bro ...

@luke43591 3 года назад

Thank you so much for this video!

@gyanendra_chaubey 5 лет назад

beautiful explanation ! Thank you.

@ByteByByte 5 лет назад

Thanks!

@RajSingh-yj7zj 4 года назад

This vid really helped me

@Artificial_Intelligence_AI 4 года назад

This is easily the best video of recursion that you can find in the internet. All problems brilliantly explained step by step, for me this deserves more views, I have no doubt about that.

@Cloud9er 3 года назад

The beginning part where order of execution was explained helped a lot but combinations uses a language I didn't learn.

@pastafarian8410 4 года назад

Thanks for making such a difficult topic so easy.

@ByteByByte 4 года назад

Glad you found it helpful!

@2010aishwary 4 года назад

Oh Man, I love you for this video

@rhidoy07 3 года назад

Nicely done. Great thanks man.

@alvarodelgadoclavero818 3 года назад

Thanks to you I could unserstand how itertools work in python and make my own functions for combinations without it. Thanks from Spain

@brianthomas9148 Год назад

Beautifully explained!!

@manprabeshboruah3727 Год назад

The perfect video what I was looking for. Thanks sir!

@JoseAlvarez-dl3hm 4 года назад

I liked your way of explaining the recursion calls, but the finding all combinations got a little tricky, I will have to rewatch it a couple of times to get it.

@pranjalpimpale8465 3 года назад

thank you so much well explained

@blink8235 3 года назад

Thank you so much for this video. Not to sound like a generic positive comment but this video, especially the last bit on the combinations helped me understand recursion better. Also, I clicked on this video cus I was struggling with the sum of subsets problem, and that last example was exactly what I needed to understand how to use recursion for that particular problem, and how to go about solving it😄👍

@nicolaslavanderos3140 2 года назад

Thank u sam very well explained

@punstress 4 года назад

Combinations was a mess; instead of zipping your cursor around the three blocks of code so we have no idea where you are, highlight the line you're demonstrating. You can just erase it then highlight the next. You say we don't need to know what's going on to follow it, but for those of us who haven't already watched the power set solution, running through it would really help because I had no idea what path-with-current meant and having two 'combinations' also was confusing. Not a java person.

@saurabh44gupta 5 лет назад

you made my interest in recursion thank you so much

@samgavis-hughson9994 5 лет назад

That's awesome! Glad to hear it :)

@lukengirubiu6492 2 года назад

This tutorial is fine, far better than most recursion tutorials. How would it be if return fib(n-1)+fib(n-2)+fib(n-3) for the first problem. Explain if possible.

@user-kp5oo5nd5t 6 месяцев назад

Thanks a lot

@pratikthakur136 4 года назад

Thank you. It helped me 😋😋😋

@Ash-ej3nx 3 года назад

dude i love you

@jugsma6676 4 года назад

seems that you made a typo while calling a recursive call? instead of combinationsPassed(..) it should have been combinations(...) I was kinda looking for that combinationsPassed function.

@danielsd1 2 года назад

Thank you!!!

@ByteByByte 2 года назад

You got it!

@sanyamsinghal7992 4 года назад

i was so focussed in listening to you that i even noticed quiet noise of police siren in your video around 12:38

@ByteByByte 4 года назад

Haha the joys of living in New York City

@marag1427 Год назад

thank you

@bhaskarmaheshwari9627 3 года назад

simply awesome

@sattwikmaiti3669 4 года назад

plz put up more videos on recursion in java for class 11 and 123

@weezybusy 5 лет назад

The powerset code example is confusing. 1. You have two functions with the same name "combinations". 2. You call combinations([1, 2, 3]) then draw additional arguments 0, [], with total of 3 arguments, but both combination functions have different number of arguments - the first has 1, the second has 4.

@JohnWick-zc5li 5 лет назад

Thanks ... could you pls make a video how to print 2 second largest binary tree in constant time.

@EyeIn_The_Sky Год назад

why is it that after returning the first (f1) in the tree that you go to f(2) n-2 part and not start back up again higher or at the top of the tree?

@Simon-xi8tb 4 месяца назад

You can make recursive fibonnaci code faster if you store intermediate results in a map.

@kevinryankhan 5 лет назад

Spent a good minute or two trying to clean my phone screen but then realized it was your mouse cursor

@San_Jan_ 4 года назад

same here

@Kennygdfrd 3 года назад

@ 05:10 .Where is the F(2) coming from ? Why you need to calculate it on the otherside? I can't seem to see the link.

@bonzo6989 3 года назад

Is combinationPassed named like this for clarity? shouldn't it be just combinations?

@rishisharanpentala5362 3 года назад

How does it flow if there is a for loop inside a recursive function?

@anonmisfit 4 года назад

well, I still dont understand the mergesort, but at least I've learned something

@YashDEVELOPER12 3 года назад

In mergesort, merge function is complicated

@MM-ux4ju 4 года назад

@saltygamer8435 2 года назад

the combinations had me rewinding a 100 times

@ramidaoud3776 2 года назад

I wish there is a javascript version of this video

@hammer6264 3 года назад

Sir, would u create the same video but with vba code ?

@sofiayz7472 3 года назад

Can you explain why the pwc is [1,2] or [1,3]?

@sanskarkaazi3830 2 года назад

What is the time complexity of the final code? The combinations one?

@hashanpererasrilanka 2 года назад

for the second example, I think if there is any way (like a stack or something) to represent the flow than a tree we can understand it better print statement execution after returning the method. Still, In my mind, there is no good image representation of a non-tail recursion and just logically derive the answer with your explanation

@angelcaru 4 года назад

The tree for fib(4) is: LLLURUURUURLUR

@_________________404 4 года назад

The combinations stuff is some black magic material

@whoisray1680 4 года назад

hahahahaahahaa

@sikhosanadhliwayo989 4 года назад

i'm so lost hahaha

@TheHendogga032888 3 года назад

is this in C or Java?

@sabrinaperardt9834 2 года назад

Where is the function 'combinationPassed()' ? I only see 2 functions called combinations :S

@naveennoel9496 3 года назад

The tracing part is damn annoying. The video really helped me understand it.

@gopalcse1 4 года назад

whats going on man

@FitnessChaos 4 года назад

good video. never thought of it as a tree structure and the call stack

@vinothinir379 3 года назад

This is my python code of powerset problem.why i can't get the correct output ,is there any mistakes..def func(array): result=[] path=[] func2(array,0,result,path) return result def func2(array,i,result,path): if i==len(array): result.append(path) return pwc=[] pwc.append(array[i]) func2(array,i+1,result,path) func2(array,i+1, result, pwc)

@darshanbc 3 года назад

Where is combinationPassed function

@akashverma5756 Год назад

It is the part most of the tutors and learners get wrong.

@wengeance8962 4 года назад

looks like this comes out as depthfirst

@ashutoshsinghpatel196 2 года назад

Powerset explanation was bit more confusing 🙂

@yassineraddaoui5467 3 года назад

wow

@magapujahnavidevi5779 4 года назад

Can you give tree diagram recursive explanation for power(x,y) int p(int x,int y) { if(y==0) return 1; int half = p(x,y/2); if(y%2==0) return half*half; return x* half*half; }

@golu4625 3 года назад

U only say this is going to happen and then this but never say why and how Made me frustrated

@raunakagrawal4230 3 года назад

Confused 🤔

@exitoguru891 3 года назад

awsne explanation, but lost in combination

@skumakerguitar8708 3 года назад

DUDEEE thanks so much man ! this is very clear explanation if i was a girl i would like dating a man smart and handsome like you bro :)

@xdavier31 3 года назад

Facts he could give me the pipe, am I right

@arghyamandal48 3 года назад

Not at all clear. The Reverse Linked list portion is pretty obscure.

@BBRR442 2 года назад

I’m so lost 😞

@harshadfx 4 года назад

At 11:00, you haven't changed path yet, so it should be [ ]. Pwc however can be [1]. Edit: Sorry, typical programmer's impatience 😁

@MrClaudioAgostini 3 года назад

This is the worst way to understand recursive code. You don't have to keep track of the sequence of instructions: that's the best way to get lost. You have to understand the function in an abstract way, just as if it were a math function.