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Basic Ruby Loops lesson: Recommend skipping recursion in assignment #26556

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The Launch School curriculum in the Loops lesson of the Ruby Course discusses recursion. TOP intentionally does not discuss recursion until the "A Bit of Computer Science" section in the Ruby Course.

As it stands, if learners were to fully read the Loops lesson assigned, they may deep dive into recursive methods earlier than TOP intends (we can equate this to a rabbit hole).

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  • Adds a note in the assignment to review the Loops lesson that encourages the learner to ignore recursion until it appears later in TOP.

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Related to #26504

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Creating a PR without an issue as per this discord discussion

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@github-actions github-actions bot added the Content: Ruby Involves the Ruby course label Oct 24, 2023
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Thank you for taking the time to make this PR! This will really help learners not get side-tracked with recursion too early.

@rlmoser99 rlmoser99 merged commit dd0a90a into TheOdinProject:main Oct 24, 2023
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@jonathanmeneses jonathanmeneses deleted the loops-recursion-note branch October 24, 2023 23:35
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