Yes. It should have been 2. Sorry, I missed that when first scanning your question. I thought you were looking more for a conceptual understanding why the program works than the exact sequence with which the program executes. You will find that many more calls are made than what you have written...
Actually, you're right about 2. I was going to add the case where we find the sum somewhere else, but that's probably because I haven't had identify a base case for several years and have gotten rusty. It's also my first time trying to help someone over the internet and I'm not used to not...
I once had a very good CS professor who always likened recursion to solving the simplest possible problem (the base case) and then being lazy and re-using it (reducing the problem to the simpler form). What's your background? (Your use of "jump" has me a bit nervous and most CS types I know of...
I literally just received my Electronic ID this week and haven't activated it (although it needs to be done ASAP as the deadlines for important forms is coming up at the end of the month). All I have done is accepted the offer for Fall and talked to some faculty about potentially working in...
I will be starting a Mechanical Engineering PhD program at a highly ranked university this upcoming fall.
When I first made my decision where to attend, things were fairly turbulent and I was still very unsure what I wanted to accomplish with my research. The entire application and decision...