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When I was learning to code I figured out a difficult problem using recursion without any knowledge of what recursion was, I remember being happy and thought I was a genius for a short time. Whenever something ‘clicks’ and you get that dopamine the best part of coding.


I don't know what counts as "genius", but coming up with that on your own, with little development experience, is at least brilliant.


The first recursion I put into production is a good memory for me. I wore a big smile that day.

It was a routine to discover all the ancestors of a category, to create a breadcrumb navigation for a web directory.

I believe it's still in production, although the site has been re-skinned so it's hard to say for sure.




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