Recursively cursing

Recursion is weird

Prior to starting this course, I thought myself a relatively seasoned developer, capable of doing all sorts of tasks. Prior to starting this course, I had never heard of recursion.

It took many, many attempts to wrap my head around the recursive return statements. What the hell was going on? I voiced my issues with a fellow pre-course classmate, with whom I had developed a friendly rapport (and who was way smarter than me). Thank god I did, because his response saved me likely hours of headache trying to understand the concept. "Recursion is just iterating using the stack instead of an iterator."

I thought, "Surely it's not that simple." It is. It is that simple. Things began clicking into place, and I was able to accomplish the tasks set out. However, I'm still working on re-implementing the JSON.parse function, and it has not been fun. Still learning all about recursive descent parsers and what that actually means. Check in later to see any progress updates.

• ✅ Reimplement getElementsByClassName
• ✅ Reimplement JSON.stringify
• ⬜ Reimplement JSON.parse