Introducing code adviser: A DFA-driven electronic programming tutor

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 9223, Issue , 2015, Pages 307-312

  Ade Ibijola, Abejide ^a   Ewert, Sigrid ^a   Sanders, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bug detection; Program strings; Semantic bugs

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; AUTOMATA THEORY; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FINITE AUTOMATA; INFERENCE ENGINES; PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SEMANTICS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

BUG DETECTION; DETERMINISTIC FINITE AUTOMATA; PROGRAM CORRECTNESS; PROGRAM STRINGS; PROGRAMMING PROBLEM; PROGRAMMING TUTORS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

C++ (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 84951783025     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-22360-5_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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