A visual and interactive automata theory course with JFLAP 4.0

We describe the instructional software JFLAP 4.0 and how it can be used to provide a hands-on formal languages and automata theory course. JFLAP 4.0 doubles the number of chapters worth of material from JFLAP 3.1, now covering topics from eleven of thirteen chapters for a semester course. JFLAP 4.0 has easier interactive approaches to previous topics and covers many new topics including three parsing algorithms, multi-tape Turing machines, L-systems, and grammar transformations. Categories and Subject Descriptors F.4.3 [Theory of Computation]: Mathematical Logic and

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: SIGCSE
• Authors: Ryan Cavalcante, Thomas Finley, Susan H. Rodger
• Keywords: Automata Theory Course, Education, Hands-on Formal Languages, Instructional Software Jflap, SIGCSE 2004