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Five examples of recursion in Java

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Recursion in Java gets a bad rap. Experienced developers shun the practice over fears that an ...
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Generalization of the Lord-Wingersky Algorithm to Computing the Distribution of Summed Test Scores Based on Real-Number Item Scores

With known item response theory (IRT) item parameters, Lord and Wingersky provided a recursive algorithm for computing the conditional frequency distribution of number-correct test scores, given ...
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Example Java String palindrome checker program using recursion

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Good programmers need to create code that efficiently solves problems, using various methods. A ...
Ars Technica

Recursion or while loops: Which is better?

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