Right, so the things we want you to take away from this are, get into the habit of using pseudo code when you sit down to start a problem, write out what are the steps.

好，这儿我想大家明白的就是,养成解决问题时先写伪代码的好习惯,把步骤都写出来,我想要告诉你们的是一个好的程序员。

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And it becomes a powerful way of reasoning about the code, a powerful way of using the code, so those notions of specs are really important.

以保证你写对代码,这将成为分析代码,使用代码的重要手段,所以规范说明的概念。

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At the end of the day, you can implement the exact same program using a while loop that you can using a for loop, it's just your code is going to look slightly different.

最终，你可以执行这个程序,再使用for循环的地方使用while循环，这只是使你的代码看起来稍微有点不同。

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to do sqrt, or square root-- no, I'm going to square root use sqrt, that's the name I'm using here-- square root a hundred different places in some piece of code. Without function, I'd have to copy that piece of code everywhere.

让我做一下准备,想象一下我要调用sqrt或者-,不，我会调用sqrt函数,这是我在这里用的名字，我得把这段代码到处复制。

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And you'll find in the end that recursion is a feature of a language, it allows you to map some very obvious concepts like the phonebook tearing in half and half and half and half to actual code without it using some arbitrary human contrived framework like a for loop or a while loop which are much more stilted mechanisms.

最后你会发现递归是某种语言的一种特征,你可以用它将一些非常明显的思想,比如将电话簿划分为一半又一半,映射为实际代码，而不必使用那些人为框架,像for循环，while循环之类的,那是很呆板的机制。

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