JFAST: A java finite automata simulator

Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 384-388

  White, Timothy M ^a   Way, Thomas P ^a  

^a Department of Computing Sciences and Center of Excellence in Enterprise Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational software; Finite automata; Finite state machines; Simulation; Theory of computation education

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FINITE AUTOMATA; LEARNING SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; VISUALIZATION;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 37849002180     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1121341.1121460     Document Type: Conference Paper

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