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Recursion FAIL

Name: Anonymous 2010-02-08 22:29

I'm learning to hate recursion terribly, but I need to do it for this project.
The point of the project is to go from pointA to pointB using recursion in java. And print out all paths.
my input is
5
3 0
1 3

output should be about 10 paths in form of (col,row)
can I get a few pointers and maybe a little help?
private void pathFinder(int row, int col, int xB, int yB, int[][] array)
{
    if(row==xB && col==yB)
    {
        System.out.println("("+row+","+col+") ");
    }
    if(canIGoNorth(row,xB)==true)
    {
        System.out.print("("+row+","+col+") ");           
        pathFinder(row-1,col,xB,yB,array);
        System.out.print("("+row+","+col+") ");
    }
    if(canIGoEast(col,yB)==true)
    {
        System.out.print("("+row+","+col+") ");           
        pathFinder(row,col+1,xB,yB,array);
        System.out.print("("+row+","+col+") ");
           
    }
       
       
    }
inb4 learn to code, everythings wrong, and java sucks.

Name: Anonymous 2010-02-09 15:07

>>27
All programming is recursive, if by recursive we mean, "Solve the simplest problem. Reduce complicated problems to simpler problems." Languages which force iterative constructs go against basic programming technique.

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