Using SPARK for a beginner's course on reasoning about imperative programs

Authors:
Kung-Kiu Lau
Affiliations:
The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM international conference on SIGAda annual international conference
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Teaching beginners predicate transformer semantics for imperative languages is not a trivial task. For Computer Science majors, the teaching of the theoretical material must be supported by suitable practical course work. For this, we need a suitable language with appropriate tool support. In this paper, we describe our experience of using SPARK and its tools for this purpose. Our experience has been a very positive one. practical work.