Introduction to Recursion and Exceptions

     This week, and the last, the main focus in class and the labs have been on recursion and exceptions. Both of which are something that I have not done in high school, so I've finally met something new. The one line recursions are a bit confusing to try and dissect. I'd prefer if it was separated into more lines, but It may just be a lack of experience. The recursion involving the writing turtle was very neat, and not at all hard to follow. Recursions are basically a looping function, with a base case to finally stop it. Exceptions are even easier (so far). In our lab we wrote our own tests for a class and it involved an exception. The lab was a bit challenging, but was very helpful in understanding the material. It also helped with exercise 2 which involved creating a function and then a tester for it.