SIGCSE '99 The proceedings of the thirtieth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Using JFLAP to interact with theorems in automata theory
SIGCSE '99 The proceedings of the thirtieth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Engaging students with active learning resources: hypertextbooks for the web
Proceedings of the thirty-second SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer Science Education
Animating automata: a cross-platform program for teaching finite automata
SIGCSE '02 Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
A visual and interactive automata theory course emphasizing breadth of automata
ITiCSE '05 Proceedings of the 10th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Turning automata theory into a hands-on course
Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Realizing the promise of visualization in the theory of computing
Journal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC)
Increasing interaction and support in the formal languages and automata theory course
Proceedings of the 12th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Increasing engagement in automata theory with JFLAP
Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Fifty years of automata simulation: a review
ACM Inroads
Visual tools and examples to support active e-learning and motivation with performance evaluation
Edutainment'06 Proceedings of the First international conference on Technologies for E-Learning and Digital Entertainment
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The FSA Simulator is a Java program created to allow computer science students to work and experiment with finite state automata (FSAs). One of its unique features is the ability to compare the languages of two FSAs. This FSA comparison feature lets the software give students feedback about the accuracy of their work as they do exercises, guiding them toward a correct solution. This paper discusses some preliminary experiments performed to determine the effect of this feedback mechanism on students' learning. Two experimental labs were conducted, the results of which suggest that this feature improved students' success rate when doing exercises, but did not appear to significantly improve the students' performance when the comparison feature was not available.