> I know that the Eight Queens puzzle is a good recursion candidate, > but I don't understand why as yet. I'm still on simple recursion, > and am just beginning to understand backtracking in a simple > example, like adding numbers in an array.
If you make a typo when typing an email, do you delete the whole message and start over? Probably not :^) With recursion, you can just back up a few steps to the parts that were known to be working and carry on again from there. Alan _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
