we use this in college because our program is Information Systems. i still do not get it.
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Think of **iteration** and **recursion** like solving a problem in two different ways.
**Iteration** is like following a set of steps repeatedly. Imagine counting from 1 to 10 by writing the numbers one by one in a list. You keep going until you reach 10. This is iteration—repeating a process over and over until you’re done.
**Recursion** is when you break a big problem into smaller versions of itself. Imagine asking someone else to count to 10, but they stop at 9 and ask another person to count from 1 to 9, and so on. In recursion, a problem solves itself by making smaller versions of the same problem until reaching a simple, base case (like 1 in this example).
So, iteration is like doing the job step-by-step yourself, while recursion is like dividing the task into smaller chunks and letting each chunk solve itself.
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