Unit 10: Recursion

Question 1

recursive call

Answer 1

the line(s) in the method that call itself

Question 1

base case

Answer 1

the method returning an answer without a recursive call (what stops the method, all finite ones have one)

Question 2

call stack

Answer 2

java keeping track of all the method calls after the main method executes

Question 3

stack

Answer 3

a way of organizing data that adds and removes items only from the top of the stack (like cups)

how java knows which method to go back to when moving around method executions