On Tue, October 18, 2016 4:53 am, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk via Lazarus wrote: > My application was like the following ( as a very simple example ) : > > > Pose a problem "Display your name ." > After this is done : > > > "Display your name 10 times ." > > > The students were not able to write their programs . Then , solution was > "You should use a loop ."
How do you know some clever student wouldn't end up using recursion without any loop involved? And that leads to a question, should recursion even be used in teaching or are loops easier to reason about? I find recursion, although intellectually interesting, kind of difficult to map in the mind, and I'm skeptical of all the functional languages using recursion, almost abusively. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org http://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
