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Last week I published this article about recursion in Python and wanted to share to gather feedback

I think you could've kept the section on "basic recursion" short, keeping the focus on complex cases.

I.e. removing any definition other than normal & tail recursion, and shortening the "tree structure of regression" bit into 1 paragraph.

Most people do understand basic recursion and the function call tree, but fail to grasp it in nontrivial scenarios

30 minutes read for an article is too much. Since you like explaining things in depth, consider writing a book.

I always question how long an article should be, but then I reliase... Even if 30 mins is too much, if it saves you much more time googling around, it is worth it.

I want my articles to be used as future references, to be comprehensive and self-contained. I want them to be useful both to the complete beginner and to the person who already know most of the stuff.

After gathering some feedback I am now considering extending it to include the difference between structural recursion and generative recursion and differences between memoization and Dynamic Programming.

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