25. Programming Abstractions Lecture 25
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Julie examines a case study and opening up the lexicon file, which is complicated; she walks the students through the code and explains why she wrote it as she did as opposed to a sorted vector or binary search tree.
Julie goes over recursion and the proper ways to solve problems recursively. She continues with the example of a program that draws a fractal image and explains a Mandarin code to illustrate the different possibilities of drawing different pictures.
Published 08/11/08
Julie explains procedural recursion and introduces permute code. She goes through another example of recursive code line by line, explaining each component. Recursive backtracking and it's usefulness are discussed.
Published 07/23/08
Julie continues with recursive backtracking and introduces pointers and recursive data. Following, she focuses on solving the problems rather than the exact code and later uses the example of a program that will solve a Sudoku puzzle.
Published 07/23/08