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SICP

SICP 1.2.1 Notes: Linear Recursion and Iteration

Procedures define functionality on a local level, however, it is smart for the programmer to want to know what is happening on the global level of their program. This is a hard thing to do.

There are common “shapes” of processes generated by procedures that correspond to the very valuable computational resources of time and space. This is known in a more modern sense as Big O notation, which deals with the time-complexity of a given algorithm - how long it will take to compute it. …

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My name is Wyatt Fleming. I am a Project Manager at WebJaguar and a life-long learner interested in history, economics, gardening, and computers.