Week 6 Assignment 1 Crunching, Linked List refresher, and Recursion

Interesting week to say the least as an assignment is quickly approaching its due date.

The assignment is definitely more robust then those in 108, and I believe it gives ample practice, especially for those students who crave something to whet their programming lust.

Two interesting topics were discussed this week (though linked lists is admittedly 'old'). Recursion seems to require alot more experience than using the good ol' loop. Some additional thought is needed to properly structure problems into base cases and a 'recursive' case that can collapse the problem down to the base case. I'll definitely be adopting this slowly, before utilizing it heavily. 

I found a great visceral live demonstration of this concept, it's called the Tower of Hanoi problem:

As the course seems to picking up pace, I'll have to increase my efforts towards this course accordingly. For now it's back to the assignment.