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A classroom experiment for teaching automata

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Mohamed Hamada,

Kazuhiko ShiinaAuthors Info & Claims

ITiCSE '04: Proceedings of the 9th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1007996.1008094

Published: 28 June 2004 Publication History

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In this work we focus on an experiment held at an automata class room to test the effectiveness of using simulators. We developed our own simulator. We also tested two other existing simulators to find whether simulators are useful as a teaching tool in automata classes.

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M. Chapman www.belgarath.demon.co.uk/java/fsme.html

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M. Hamada and K. Shiina www.u-aizu.ac.jp/m5071205/research.html

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Verma R(2005)A visual and interactive automata theory course emphasizing breadth of automataACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/1151954.106753537:3(325-329)Online publication date: 27-Jun-2005
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Verma RCunha JFleischman WProulx VLourenço J(2005)A visual and interactive automata theory course emphasizing breadth of automataProceedings of the 10th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education10.1145/1067445.1067535(325-329)Online publication date: 27-Jun-2005
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ITiCSE '04: Proceedings of the 9th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

June 2004

296 pages

ISBN:1581138369

DOI:10.1145/1007996

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University of Leeds, UK
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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 36, Issue 3
September 2004
280 pages
ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/1026487
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