Python: RECURSION Explained

An intro to recursion, and how to write a factorial function in Python using recursion.

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[rochanhm]

To understand recursion, you need to first understand recursion.

[danbw]

Thank you for this. Its harder than you would think to find a beginner recursion tutorial thats easy to understand

[Ty-vpjp]

Again, another video that sums up 3 hours of lecture into a video under 10 minutes.

[karleme]

Was puzzled by recursion until you explained that it digs down to the base case and then works back up. Thank you

[JustinDAMusic]

This video is definitely one of the most comprehensive explanations of recursion for beginners. I always wondered how calculations were being done if the function is repeatedly calling itself but as explained in this video the function keeps calling itself until it reaches the base case and then only are the calculations done. I love the analogy of digging a hole.

[absolutezero]

Amazing video, not monotonous, but still gives a good overview and lesson on recursion in python! Keep up the good work!

[BigStuDolla]

At 4:00 you explain recursion better than the ton of videos i've been watching. thanks

[innonhara]

Best explanation of recursion I have come across on the net.

[chinmaydas]

Sir your are doing great job.It's very helpful when you first give the pseducode of that algorithms then give the programs in specific language implementation..love you sir.please give more and algorithms implementation in java and python programming languages..this will be very helpful for us...

[DoYouHaveAName]

Thank you for this explanation, I like that you compared it as "we are digging ourselves deeper into a hole and then digging ourselves out of it"

[maximum]

thank you so much, you probably will never see this comment or care but i personally wanted too thank you for helping me to understand recursion better, my computer science teacher was explaining it and I had a hard time understanding but when you explained simpler it it was much easier to understand :)

[nuhibrahim]

great job! keep it up! finally, a detailed explanation of recursion explaining about the things that going around in the background...

[JJJJ-gluf]

Clearly spoken, good explanation, fairly easy to understand. Well done.

[baharehkjani]

THANK YOU, DANKE, MERCI, SHUKRAN, SEPAS <3 I did it all alone after watching this tutorial, please upload more videos !

[jarrodabott]

A very concise explanation without your face as the focus but rather the issue at hand. The tutorial is on point without having to learn the creation of the universe, which is so annoying. My first Python subscription and like (whoa!).

[mybluemars]

Thank you Joe! Now I have a basic understanding of RECURSION and can see how searches such as tree traversals and binary code work. :)

[abs]

I needed to refresh my memory on recession and your video was short and straight the point, THANKS

[BuildingImpossibleDreams]

Thank you for actually saying iterative is a loop. Book after book and video after video never say iterative is loop.

[johnjones]

Excellent job. Your explanation is clear and easy to follow. Please do more videos like these. Many thanks for your help and hard work.

[jiachenhu]

Thanks for explaining this in a such simple and doable manner! 🎉🎉