Publications [#322411] of Susan H. Rodger

Conference articles OFFICIALLY ACCEPTED

1. Rodger, SH, Integrating hands-on work into the formal languages course via tools and programming, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, vol. 1260 (January, 1997), pp. 132-148, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN 9783540631743 [doi]
   (last updated on 2026/01/20)

   Abstract:
   Integrating hands-on practice into an automata and formal languages course aids in transforming the course from a traditional mathematics course into a traditional computer science course, while making the material more interesting from both teaching and learning perspectives. The interactive and visual tools we integrate into our course are FLAP, a tool for constructing and simulating several types of nondeterministic automata, and LLparse and LRparse, tools for constructing parse tables and animating the parsing of strings. As a programming component, our students are also required to write an LR(1) parser for a simple programming language, using the tool Xtango to animate programs in this new language.