A collection of tools for making automata theory and formal languages come alive

SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-19

  Bilska, Anna O ^a   Leider, Kenneth H ^a   Procopiuc, Magdalena ^a   Procopiuc, Octavian ^a   Rodger, Susan H ^a   Salemme, Jason R ^a   Tsang, Edwin ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTEXT FREE GRAMMARS; FINITE AUTOMATA; TURING MACHINES;

CHOMSKY NORMAL FORM; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0010182795     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/268085.268089     Document Type: Article

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