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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

An Educational Tool for Exploring the Pumping Lemma Property for Regular Languages

Authors : Josue N. Rivera, Haiping Xu

Published in: Advances in Software Engineering, Education, and e-Learning

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Pumping lemma has been a very difficult topic for students to understand in a theoretical computer science course due to a lack of tool support. In this paper, we present an active learning tool called MInimum PUmping length (MIPU) educational software to explore the pumping lemma property for regular languages. For a given regular language, MIPU offers three major functionalities: determining the membership of an input string, generating a list of short strings that belong to the language, and automatically calculating the minimal pumping length of the language. The software tool has been developed to provide educational assistance to students to better understand the concepts of pumping lemma and minimum pumping length and promote active learning through hands-on practice.

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Metadata
Title
An Educational Tool for Exploring the Pumping Lemma Property for Regular Languages
Authors
Josue N. Rivera
Haiping Xu
Copyright Year
2021
Book
Advances in Software Engineering, Education, and e-Learning

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-70872-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-70873-3

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70873-3_11