Hi, this is my first post here.
I'm having trouble understanding the logic of recursive functions. I'm doing a self study on C programming for linux and I'm having problems understanding how recursive functions work.
like I have no idea what's going on here, and the book doesn't further explain recursive functions to enlighten me: What's going on here?
I'm just not understanding it. Any help is appreciated. I really want to understand this.Code:/* Takes the value 3 to the power of another number */ #include <stdio.h> int three_powered (int power); int main(void) { int a = 4, b = 19; printf("3 to the power of %d is %d\n", a, three_powered(a)); printf("3 to the power of %d is %d\n", b, three_powered(b)); return 0; } int three_powered (int power) { if (power < 1) return 1; else return 3 * three_powered (power -1); }
Psuedo code might help me to understand it.