Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The factorial of 5 is 120. The factorial of 10 is 3,628,800. Programmers can take one of two ...

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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At a job interview on Friday, I had to write code, and one of the things that came up when we were talking about implementation of a concept was recursion. The director of the group said to me "Don't ...