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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
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Teaching push-down automata and turing machines
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Students taking courses on formal languages and automata theory (FLAT) usually do not find these courses interesting and experience difficulty in grasping the different concepts. While there has been a vast amount of research into methodologies to assist students to conceptualize FLAT topics, there has been no research into the actual learning difficulties experienced by students with the different topics. This paper reports on the findings of a study conducted to identify these learning difficulties for some of the FLAT topics.