Why structural recursion should be taught before arrays in CS 1

Kim B. Bruce, Andrea Pohoreckyj Danyluk, Thomas P. Murtagh. Why structural recursion should be taught before arrays in CS 1. In Wanda Dann, Thomas L. Naps, Paul T. Tymann, Doug Baldwin, editors, Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2005, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, February 23-27, 2005. pages 246-250, ACM, 2005. [doi]

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