A gentle introduction to mutual recursion

Proceedings of the Conference on Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education, ITiCSE

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 235-239

  Rubio Sánchez, Manuel ^a   Urquiza Fuentes, Jaime ^a   Pareja Flores, Cristóbal ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Combinatorics; Counting problems; Fibonacci numbers; Mutual recursion; Recursion problems

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; FUNCTIONS; NUMBER THEORY; TEACHING;

COMBINATORICS; COUNTING PROBLEMS; FIBONACCI NUMBERS; MUTUAL RECURSION; RECURSIONS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 57349101760     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1384271.1384334     Document Type: Conference Paper

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