Author: Hairball

Tired of Clickbait? You Can Avoid it With This One Weird Trick

I’m very sorry for that title. We’ve all seen them. Articles like the one shown that tease you into clicking to see what the rest of it says. In this case, this guy’s one weird trick is that he got together with a bunch of other people and they bought a ticket for every possible […]

Why are we using the Fibonacci Sequence to teach recursion?

It seems like almost every programming book uses the Fibonacci Sequence to teach recursion. At first glance, this seems logical: to calculate the Nth Fibonacci number, you must know the two before it. To calculate the 10th number, you add the 8th and 9th together. Recursion seems to make sense here, because if you want […]