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Examples of Recursion
Terms
String
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A consecutive series of characters.
Standard Library
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A set of functions that comes with the C language and is standard across
all implementations of the language.
Data Structure
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A means of organizing data. A data structure can be as simple as an
integer or as complicated as a large structure such as a tree, a linked
list, etc.
Linear Search
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A method for searching through data in which one looks sequentially through
the data.
Binary Search
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A method for searching through data where the algorithm decides which half
of the data the value being searched for resides in, discards the
other half, and repeats using the remaining half as the data set being
searched.
Efficiency
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How much time and space an algorithm uses during its execution.
Mergesort
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A recursive divide-and-conquer method for sorting in which each half of
the data is sorted and then the two sorted halves are merged together.
Quicksort
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A recursive divide-and-conquer method for sorting where the data is
divided into two sets, one of which contains values less than or equal
to the pivot, a chosen value, and the other of which contains values
greater than the pivot. Finally each of the sets is sorted.
Trees
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A recursive, or self-referential, data structure in which each node
stores some data along with pointers to other nodes, referred to as
children.
Recursive Data Type
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A data structure which contains pointers or references to itself, such
as a tree or a linked list.
Node
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One element of a tree or a linked list.
Traverse
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To examine each element of a data structure in a specified order.
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