{"paper":{"title":"Vector Programming Using Structural Recursion","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["cs.CY"],"primary_cat":"cs.PL","authors_text":"Marco T. Moraz\\'an (Seton Hall University)","submitted_at":"2018-05-14T11:43:52Z","abstract_excerpt":"Vector programming is an important topic in many Introduction to Computer Science courses. Despite the importance of vectors, learning vector programming is a source for frustration to  many students given that they feel left adrift when it comes to resolving vector indexing errors. Even though the size of a vector is a natural number, there have been no efforts to define a useful recursive data definition to help beginners design vector processing functions. This article defines the concept of a vector interval and describes how to exploit its recursive structure to design vector processing f"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1805.05124","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}