Ch.4: Recursion & Looping | Intro to Python & Programming | Coding for Managers Series
This is a presentation of Chapter 4 of the "Introduction to Python & Programming" book that accompanies the coding course in the Bachelor program at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management in Germany in the spring semester 2020.
In this video, I talk about:
How a function that calls itself implements the concept of a recursion
How a recursion solves problems in a "backwards" fashion
What happens when a recursion does not end up in its base case
What duck typing means
How type checking and input validation can harden a function against bad input
How the while statement provides generic ways of looping
Why the for statement is only a special case of the while statement
What kind of syntactic sugar exists that makes looping even nicer
How an indefinite loop can be used to process user input
Examples introduced: The factorial of a number, the greatest common divisor of two numbers, and Fibonacci numbers
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WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, Germany
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