Fibonacci Series In Java With Recursion - Full Tutorial (FAST Algorithm)

Full tutorial for generating numbers in the Fibonacci sequence in Java, using Recursion!

The Fibonacci sequence (series) is often one of the first Java assignments teaching recursion for beginners.
The basic Fibonacci algorithm is very simple, but works extremely slowly. This improves on that Fibonacci algorithm and generates Fibonacci numbers FAST.

We'll walk through the entire Fibonacci series algorithm step by step, and walk through coding the entire thing in Java.

Learn a great Java Fibonacci sequence program by watching the whole algorithm being described and coded.

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[Sami]

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[belkhirisub]

Honestly, I was struggling to understand Fibonacci in high school, but now I understand everything well
I wish you were my programming teacher

[asankasiriwardena]

a fairly easy implementation without recursion,

int n = 10;
int[] arr = new int[n];
arr[1] = 1;
for (int i = 2; i < n; i++) {
arr[i] = arr[i - 1] + arr [i -2];
}

[jonsantos]

Very useful for learning recursion especially if dealing with slow speed computations.
*Tip: Primitives can never be assigned 'null', instead, they will default to 0.*

[MTB_Bay_Area]

Clear, and to the point like all your videos. Thank you for helping.

[Avarn]

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[GuideEver]

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[MrDarshD]

Well explained and coded! Loved the way you described small details like why we do n-1 and n+1!! Also appreciate the bonus at the end with all numbers printed. Thank you so much John!

[cstrovn]

Thank you for this beautiful tutorial. I'd never programmed in Java till this week when I decided to make a personal project entirely in it. It was painful but I made it through. This tutorial definitely helped a lot.

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[fremontlowe]

Thanks for this tutorial. I found it to be extremely helpful. I even changed the cache variable to BigInt to increase the size of fibonacci numbers returned. I no longer saw negative numbers; and still executed in sub seconds.

[uncopino]

i was playing around with recursion yesterday and i made a fibonacci recursive algorithm as fast as yours but using no static variables. i just made the method return an array of 2 longs (the last two values) in order to avoid the double recursive call. i can post the code if anyone’s interested

[kBertram]

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[robertb]

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[gongdian]

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