On some innovations in teaching the formal semantics using software tools

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2020-12-17 DOI:10.1515/comp-2020-0130

William Steingartner

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Abstract In this work we discuss the motivation for innovations and need of a teaching tool for the visualization of the natural semantics method of imperative programming languages. We present the rôle of the teaching software, its design, development and use in the teaching process. Our software module is able to visualize the natural semantics evaluation of programs. It serves as a compiler with environment that can visually interpret simple programming language Jane statements and to depict them into a derivation tree that represents the semantic method of natural semantics. A formal definition of programming language Jane used in the teaching of formal semantics and production rules in natural semantics for that language are shown as well. We present, how the presented teaching tool can provide particular visual steps in the process of finding the meaning of well-structured input program and to depict complete natural-semantic representation of an input program.

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软件工具在形式语义学教学中的一些创新

摘要在这项工作中，我们讨论了命令式编程语言的自然语义方法可视化的创新动机和教学工具的需求。我们介绍了教学软件的设计、开发以及在教学过程中的使用。我们的软件模块能够可视化程序的自然语义评估。它是一个编译器，其环境可以直观地解释简单的编程语言Jane语句，并将它们描述为表示自然语义的语义方法的派生树。还展示了Jane在形式语义教学中使用的编程语言的形式定义以及该语言的自然语义中的生成规则。我们介绍了所提供的教学工具如何在寻找结构良好的输入程序的含义的过程中提供特定的视觉步骤，并描述输入程序的完整自然语义表示。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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