So generally and those of you coming from high school computer science background probably used An Integrated Development Environment which actually is a gooey with menus and icons and such.

对于你们这些,有着高中电脑知识背景的同学可能一般用,即“集成开发环境“,它有一些菜单，图标等等。

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How many of you have heard the term used before? How may have you heard the term used before in terms of programming languages? Great. For the rest you, don't sweat it. This is a highfalutin term that computer scientists use to try and make them look like they're smarter than they really are.

这里就要引入递归的概念了,你们中有多少人以前听过这个词？,你们中有多少人在编程语言中,用过这个词？,很好，剩下的同学也不要担心,这是电脑科学家们用来让自己,显得更聪明的夸张词汇。

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