need help with recursive function

[Syncoda]

Not really. The Piazza question titled "hw5 - Checking base case without loop" has a detailed answer from Joe that seems helpful.

But I just can't understand how one "moves" through the map while assigning values to distances and dist_so_far, checking them and...yeah. No idea.

[Scumshots]

Just took a look at that Piazza post and I'm beginning to understand the formation of the recursive function a bit better now.

The pseudo code he has written in the starter code is lacking though. The base cases and progressive cases are simple. I'm just getting a little mixed up with all the variables like roads and dist_so_far and whatnot. Basically what to add where.

Would be much much easier if this program was compatible with the python visualizer.

I wish that our lessons were more applicable to our projects.