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Home > AP Courses and Exams > Course Home Pages > Teaching Recursion Teaching Recursion Read more Strategies... Sharing Strategies for Teaching AP CS Recursion is an important problem-solving technique included in the AP CS A and AB curriculum. It is not uncommon for novice programmers to have difficulty understanding recursion, and it may be even more difficult to develop recursive algorithms. It is always a challenge to come up with interesting, understandable methods to teach recursion so that students will actually understand it. Many of our colleagues have great ideas and suggestions, as demonstrated by the activities below.   Recursion: "Martin and the Dragon"   Recursion: "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back"   Recursion: combo(4,3)   Towers of Hanoi Iteratively   Recursion with Web Animations If you would like to contribute another idea for teaching recursion, please submit your ideas! See also... AP Computer Science A Course Home Page AP Computer Science AB Course Home Page Teachers' Resources

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