Iteration and recursion similarities and differences. The factorial of 5 is 120. The factorial of 10 is 3,628,800. Programmers can take one of two approaches when it comes to the Java factorial ...

Recursive Java palindrome program. All of the Java recursion examples so far have dealt with numbers. But this example, the recursive Java palindrome checker program, deals with strings. Namely, it’s ...

Recursion is not intrinsically better or worse than loops—each has advantages and disadvantages, and those even depend on the programming language (and implementation).