History of First Recursion Lab

Thursday, 13 February 2003 [Samuel A. Rebelsky]

• Created, upon reflection that students should think about recursive procedures they've read about before writing their own.
• Copied a few problems from the lab on list recursion.
• Validated HTML.

Friday, 14 February 2003 [Samuel A. Rebelsky]

• Corrected stupid error in newer-greatest-of-list. [Thanks NL]
• This version available as http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~rebelsky/Courses/CS151/2003S/Labs/recursion.html.

Sunday, 21 September 2003 [Samuel A. Rebelsky]

• Renamed.
• Fixed dates in history.

Tuesday, 23 September 2003 [Samuel A. Rebelsky]

• Added the display steps problem.
• Added a few hints here and there.

Wednesday, 28 January 2004 [Samuel A. Rebelsky]

• Minor stylistic changes to beginning of document.
• This version available as http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~rebelsky/Courses/CS151/2003F/Labs/recursion.html.

Monday, 11 September 2006 [Samuel A. Rebelsky]

• Added link to PDF version.
• Added longest-string-on-list problem.
• Renamed greatest-of-list to largest-of-list.
• Other minor edits.
• This version available as http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~rebelsky/Courses/CS151/2006F/Labs/recursion.html.

Monday, 5 February 2007 [Samuel A. Rebelsky]

• Removed the strange largest-of-list. While it had been useful in the semester it was suggested (and in a few subsequent semesters), it seemed to confuse students unnecessarily last semester.
• Moved the last two problems to the extras section.

Wednesday, 7 February 2007 [Samuel A. Rebelsky]

• Corrected errors found in class.

Thursday, 8 February 2007 [Samuel A. Rebelsky]

• A little bit more cleanup.
• This version available as http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~rebelsky/Courses/CS151/2007S/Labs/recursion.html.