Around 13:20 is exactly the kind of explanation that I was looking for. I understood how recursion works when a human does it, but not how the computer would handle it. The call stack stuff cleared this up for me. Thank you!
This is what the education system needs. Well-put-together courses that are accessible to anyone with a computer. I'm sure you'll continue to get likes and subscriptions well into the future because of this gem. Well done.
I have watched many videos on Recursion and i can assure you this is the best way that has been explained Recursion so far. Thank you all provided and posted this video here so that million of people can universally learn this.🙏🙏🙏
In the beginning when I started learning programming I didn't think recursion is that much important but when I started to learn DSA. I figured it out recursion is the soul of DSA and now I am learning, I have crossed 1:30 hr video and it has been so much fun and easy to grab. The tutor is really good ...
I feel like the first 5 minutes of this video helped me understand recursion better than my CS classes in college. I ended up switching tracks away from CS because I couldn't wrap my head around recursion and trees...
Man thank you so much for your explanations of how recursive calls work on the call stack, and then also how to interpret the call stack through debugging. This cleared up so much confusion for me!
Im surprised factorial wasn't amongst one of the examples. This resource plus the MIT lecture on youtube regarding recursion has cemented this tool for. On to the next tool!
Thank you so much for the video. This is the best explanation I've got on recursion after several books and RU-vid videos. The analogy where people were waiting in a queue (for ATM) is in my view what set my mind free on how to go about recursion. Now I know how and why a problem is attacked recursively. Cheers from me!
what a timing, I am just finishing the last section of freecodecamp js DSand Algo certification and I feel like there should be a separate section on recursion, here it is...thanks a lot
the examples with which you explain and visualize the call stack was the most important part in this tutorial i think the call stack was the part we all missed when learning about recursion and you just explained it carefully and clearly thank you for the efforts you have put in this video.
I am mind blown. I almost never use recursion because it felt so alien to me, I've done everything in for loops, while loops, etc, but mostly for loops. I've never seen so little lines of code typed for something very very complex! This makes me rethink how I program. Rather than seeing what's in front of me, but taking a step back, identifying a pattern, using that pattern flow to your advantage, adjust the course of the river and viola you've done it.
Excellent. Recursion has always been a mental twister for me. Trying to master it now, to make it a normal part of my thought processes when developing. Very informative, easy to follow. Thanks!
Been coding since 1997: recursion is good for academic purposes but almost everytime I saw it in a product, it was a source of bugs due to usage of stack above limits, which limits are very difficult to guess. Each f call is on stack.
There are definitely trade-offs. In some of my professional work, we've dealt with data structures that are tree and graph-based (ie. graph databases and the algorithms that need to be built around the data) where traversals are inherently more elegant and easily understood via recursion, whereas the iterative counterpart is a mess and often impossible to conceptualize with loops. The risk is memory, but when the bounds are understood, you can make an informed decision more appropriately. This is also true with a lot of taxonomy work when you're dealing with schemas, for example (trees).
I would suggest not to simply nullify the topic. Yes, you won't use it much but it's great for concept building. FYI, I recently used Recursion in my project. I was bulding a component to show hierarchy using Tree-grid.
I tried using the decimal to Binary example at 31:14 in a for loop and in the recursion way he showed, and tried to use the function for big numbers like pow (99, 99), it worked but recursion executed 3 times slower than the for loop, and increasing the number, to pow(99,150) I get a stack error. So, I won't use this at my work at all. Only in case I might need to use with something related to graph.
@@juliolopes2062 Definitely good to evaluate why and when it's a good choice to use it. 3x slower on modern day systems for small amounts of data is negligible. Think 5 nanoseconds vs 15 nanoseconds. However, on large datasets, recursion will of course be slower. Cheers! Nice work on investigating the performance.
Great video, helps explain recursion clearly using good examples and diagrams. I use it to help teach recursion in my A level CS classes. I recommend trying to implement the examples in code (I used Python) to help better understand the examples. The instructor also uses a good clear tone of voice with the right amount of pace so it is easy to follow the explanations.
0:39:27 if(left>right-1) is the correct answer because if we write code(left>right) and give input 20 is not in array the loop can run again and again show the Error!!👌
This video explained the call stack excellently! Recursion is one of those things I just assumed "oh, it's difficult so nobody really get's it other than theoretical researchers, so I don't need to really close that knowledge gap, but in fact this video showed me it didn't need to be so difficult. Great job!
Like many other comments, the simplistic breakdowns of recursion in this video help make sense of this topic for even the most confused. I thoroughly enjoyed this video and wish this could get bumped up for more of the world to see!
Very nicely explained. Well for me The ATM example quite describes in on itself what recursion is then the stack memory that computer has explains why it works like last task to the first. Again very good. Appreciate❤
okay, you all telling that you understood recursion and all of this. but let's appreceate the man for finally explain us why Stack Overflow is Stack Overflow :D
The iterative solutions was going through my mind for all the problems here except the graphs problems. Understood the concept of recursion, well explained.
Great lecture😊 just wanted to point out that at the palindrome exercise on line number 9 when you call the method again shouldn't the parameter be (input.substring(1, input. Length() -2); because input.length-1 won't change the substring
It's about how the substring method works for the current programming language. In JS for example, the second parameter is exclusive to the index-based count.
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I'll put a comment to remember through out your likes, that I watched this incredible master piece about recursion 🎉. Great job, thanks for this amazing lecture!
A very well-thought-out video. The animations are really helpful. However, one major flaw for me was that the instructor does not show you how to create the code. He takes the pre-defined code snippets and explains them through animations. This explanation is genuinely helpful, but while actually implementing the code by ourselves we need to understand the correct way to approach the problem. The theory in the beginning can only do so much. All pre-defined coding sections impose the idea of the solution without inducing the challenge of coding from scratch. This in a way forces an indirect rote learning principle. Pupils will always try to recreate the code snippet they understood, but will not try to create a solution by themselves.
Very clear presentation. A bit on the long side, but I was able to fast forward through the last bits because the pattern had become so familiar it was easy to follow.
Thanks a lot for your effort! It is really helpful video. And I can see how with great patience, you explain recursion on different topics. Thanks again!!
Quick Question: So recursion works by building a stack until a terminating condition is met, and once that terminating condition is met then the stack will execute. This is my idea of recursion, is it correct?
on 26:48 pseudocode for other language function isPalindrome(str) { if (str.length < 2) { return true; } if (firstCharacter(str) === lastCharacter(str)) { return isPalindrome(middleCharacters(str)); } return false; }
You really think that fundementals can change in a few years? Bro, it's not fashion trends, the programming concepts are literally the same as the were 50 years ago.
Great great beginning of video. Very nice explanation of what recursion is and how to think in recursion. Liked how the code is explained using graphics which helps understand what the code is doing. But, it'd have been great if no code was displayed for any given problem first and discuss what can we do to solve the problem. That's what's the most challenging part. Take Merging Sorted Link List example. The code was shows right away and we are walked through what the code is doing. I think more interesting part would have been to discuss the approach and then come up with a solution. But I must say that this video so far is the best in explaining Recursion.
This is what amazing content is...but I think there is a mistake in the palindrome code...in the recursive call I think we should use str. length()-2 instead of str. length()-1
