Outline 25: Recursion Basics, Continued

Held: Friday, 10 October 2014

Summary

We continue our initial forays into the wonder that is recursion.

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Overview

Administrivia

Sam partners
- BW and partner should switch places to the space by the door.
Office hours today and next week
- Normal (MThF 1:45-3:15; walking 1:15-1:45)
Some good comments on doing well on the exam (from exam 1 epilogues and exam 2 prologues)
- Split up the work more evenly.
- Check over the work before submitting.
- Divide into small sections so I'm more likely to get work done, so it doesn't look so intimidating.
- Once stuck, move on and come back later
- Refer back to notes and readings makes it easier.
- Read all of the question (I didn't do that last time and missed a part).
- If I find myself particularly stuck on a certain problem, I should move on or take a break. I found that trying to work for too long on a frustrating part just led to more frustration and less clarity.
- Look at Sam's notes on exam 1 for ideas.
- Don't freak out when something isn't working. Often, it's just a paren of syntax issue, and you can ask Sam about those.
- It isn't something I should do differently, but I found that doing the problems in my own order (e.g., I started with 7) made the test seem less daunting and working through the problems I was most comfortable with first gave me a little boost of confidence that I needed to do the more challenging problems.
- Look at the topics of each problem as they often contain hints as to how to approach the problem.
Reminder: I put useful information in the "CSC 151.01" emails. Please read them (or at least skim them)

Reflection