The First Four Weeks of CSC148

                In the first four weeks of CSC148 we have learnt about classes, subclasses (inheritance) and recursion. Although it was very valuable to learn about classes and how to make other classes inherit all of the methods and attributes of another class, in my opinion the most interesting instrument that we have learnt in the first weeks is recursion. At first recursion is a very abstract thing to think about, a function calling its self in its own definition. 

                When you eventually wrap your head around what is happening you will realise that it is basically the same as a conditional loop but a lot cleaner and simpler to implement. Recursion allows you to use a function that would normally only work with a finite number of instances and allows it to be used for an (almost) infinite number of instances. As such recursion makes creating algorithms based on repeating tasks (such as sorting) much easier to implement.