Easy Guide to Python Recursion

scottalanmiller

I like this page for teaching basic recursion using Python 3.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Non-Programmer's_Tutorial_for_Python_3/Recursion

scottalanmiller

The most common sample of recursion is always doing factorials, of course. So here it is in Python.

def main():
    num = int(input("Please enter a non-negative integer.\n"))
    fact = factorial(num)
    print("The factorial of", num, "is", fact)

def factorial(num):
    if num == 0:
        return 1
    else:
        return num * factorial(num - 1)

main()