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Learning difficulties experienced by students in a course on formal languages and automata theory

Published:2010-01-18 Issue:4 Volume:41 Page:48-52
ISSN:0097-8418
Container-title:ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
language:en
Short-container-title:SIGCSE Bull.

Author:

Pillay Nelishia¹

Affiliation:

1. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg Campus, Pietermartizburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Abstract

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.

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Link

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1709424.1709444

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