JavaScript: Recursion

This is the repository for the LinkedIn Learning course JavaScript: Recursion. The full course is available from LinkedIn Learning.

Recursion, in which functions call themselves, is a foundational structure for algorithms. If you find it hard to break a technical problem down into its simplest form, learning recursion may be just what you need. In this course, software engineer Mustapha Rufai provides a detailed guide to understanding recursion using JavaScript, exploring common use cases and detailing ways to approach these kinds of algorithmic challenges. Mustapha teaches you how to think recursively, and safely make JavaScript use this classic pattern. He then moves to showing you how to improve the performance of recursive algorithms, and presents a series of recursive technical interview questions along with his solutions.

Instructions

This repository has branches for each of the videos in the course. You can use the branch pop up menu in github to switch to a specific branch and take a look at the course at that stage, or you can add /tree/BRANCH_NAME to the URL to go to the branch you want to access.

Branches

The branches are structured to correspond to the videos in the course. The naming convention is CHAPTER#_MOVIE#. As an example, the branch named 02_03 corresponds to the second chapter and the third video in that chapter. Some branches will have a beginning and an end state. These are marked with the letters b for "beginning" and e for "end". The b branch contains the code as it is at the beginning of the movie. The e branch contains the code as it is at the end of the movie. The main branch holds the final state of the code when in the course.

When switching from one exercise files branch to the next after making changes to the files, you may get a message like this:

error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:        [files]
Please commit your changes or stash them before you switch branches.
Aborting

To resolve this issue:

Add changes to git using this command: git add .
Commit changes using this command: git commit -m "some message"

Installing

1. To use these exercise files, you must have the following installed:
   • [list of requirements for course]
2. Clone this repository into your local machine using the terminal (Mac), CMD (Windows), or a GUI tool like SourceTree.
3. [Course-specific instructions]

Instructor

Mustapha Rufai

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