Stop struggling with recursion! This video introduces the "Recursive Leap of Faith" — a powerful mental model that makes designing recursive solutions effortless. Whether you're preparing for coding interviews or trying to understand dynamic programming, this is where it all begins. ⸻ Chapters: 00:00 Introduction - What We'll Learn (Recursive Leap of Faith) 00:43 Starting Simple: Sum of Array Elements 01:07 The Key Insight: Using Subproblem Solutions 02:03 Tracing Recursive Calls 03:00 The Strategy Overview 03:25 The Recursive Paradigm 04:15 Step-by-Step Design Method 04:29 Prerequisite: Choosing Your Subproblems 05:35 Step 1: Define Your Function 06:09 Step 2: The Recursive Leap of Faith 06:54 Step 3: The Inductive Step 07:23 Step 4: The Base Case 07:56 How the Call Stack Works 09:02 Summary & What's Next ⸻ What you'll master: - The "Recursive Leap of Faith" strategy that transforms how you think about recursion - How to identify and divide problems into solvable subproblems - The 4-step method for designing any recursive solution - How the call stack tracks recursive function calls - The foundation for understanding memoization and other recursion techniques. Understand Recursion Interactively: Ready to apply what you've learned? Visit to: - Visualize recursive call trees step-by-step in playground - Practice recursion problems in practice section - See how the call stack changes in real-time - Build your intuition with guided exercises Perfect for: - Students learning recursion for the first time - Developers preparing for technical interviews - Anyone who's struggled with recursive thinking - Programmers wanting to master dynamic programming What's coming next: - Solving complex LeetCode problems recursively - From recursion to dynamic programming - Divide and conquer algorithms - Backtracking strategies Subscribe for the complete recursion series — by the end, you'll be designing recursive solutions like a pro! Connect with me: LinkedIn: Practice: #Recursion #Programming #CodingInterview #Algorithms #RecursiveThinking #LearnToCode #DSA #TechInterview #FAANGInterview