Let's sing about recursion ...

[henrynicole13]

cool clip thanks for sharing ..

[jdougher3]

Thanks, it always surprises me how positively and graciously the students respond -- JD

[n3r0t0x1n]

Brilliant, I don't think most teachers have the guts to do something creative to teach a concept. Great



[deadlybug]

idiot

[olololord]

ahahahahahahahahah



[MisterTheHero]

recursion

[jdougher3]

Hello,

I thought about tonal recursion in the sense of traversing the scale from C "back to" C, but my voice does not have such a range -- anyway, if my students "feel" that recursion, when executed, is like repetition, that's great, I am trying to get to those "audio learners", and it's a nice break in class -- thanks for the comment, JD

[cwallenpoole]

As a programmer who has a BM, I will firmly insist that the song provided is not substantively different from repetition. I would expect recursion to follow thus: Begin in a tonal place. Move from said tonal place to another tonal place via the same process. Finally, upon completion of the process, reference all preceding tonal places until you have reached the first tonal place. For tail recursion, simply skip the intermediates and return to the beginning. They lyrics may work though.

[Stebeca]

This such a niece way to learn the concept of recursion .Thanks

[S2333]

Interesting way of teaching. Certainly would wake up a few people in lectures.

[Nightvein]

This wasn't as helpful as I hoped.

[skezza]

@Nightvein Uhm, in reality, I wouldn't actually class this as recursion. Although I'm being particularly anal when it comes to it, but recursion will generally perform the same operation several unless a given state is matched outside of a recursive op. Part of the lyrics were "waiting for people to sing about recursion". That wouldn't have happened in a recursive function.