you need a thorough understanding of many vital programming concepts—variables, function calls, scope, and of course loops and recursion—and you have to bring the mental flexibility to the ...

Mathematical Background: We expect that the student is comfortable with basic mathematics at the level of a U.S. first-year college STEM student. This includes basic notions such as sets and functions ...

Functions manipulating global variables is a bit sloppy ... Towers of Hanoi To make this column more interesting, I'm going to brush off a classic recursion program and see how to make it work as a ...