Incorporating transformations into JFLAP for enhanced understanding of automata

SIGCSE'08 - Proceedings of the 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 14-18

  Jarvis, Jonathan ^a   Lucas, Joan M ^b  

^a ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Automata; Educational software; JFLAP; Undecidability

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATA; EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE; EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARES; FINITE STATE MACHINES; FUNDAMENTAL TOPICS; JAVA PROGRAMS; JFLAP; UNDECIDABILITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERS; EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; FINITE AUTOMATA; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTS; STUDENTS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); TURING MACHINES;

AUTOMATA THEORY;

EID: 57449095374     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1352135.1352143     Document Type: Conference Paper

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