Need help on thinking recursively

[SomeAmazingGuy]

I just wrote a function recursively so I can understand how recursion works, but the logic in this still escapes me. Why does this function display 55 when it should display 19, 18, 17, 16 ... 0?

int count (int num)
{
   if (num <= 0)
        return 0;

   else
        return count (num - 1) + num;

}

[manutd636]

Do you want it to print out all the numbers from num to 0?

instead of returning count ( num- 1 ) + num, you should print out num and then return count (num - 1)

[cire]

Why does this function display 55 when it should display 19, 18, 17, 16 ... 0?

The function in question does not display anything.