11.1 - Introduction
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Practice Questions
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Define recursion in your own words.
💡 Hint: Think of how a problem can be divided into smaller problems.
What is a base case in recursion?
💡 Hint: Consider what happens if there’s no stopping condition.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is recursion?
💡 Hint: Think about returning to the same function during execution.
True or False: Every recursive function must have a base case.
💡 Hint: Reflect on the purposes of stopping recursion.
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Challenge Problems
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Create a recursive function to generate all permutations of a string.
💡 Hint: Consider how you can generate permutations by fixing one character and permuting the rest.
Write a recursive function that counts the number of digits in a number.
💡 Hint: Think about how each digit is removed by integer division.
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