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      Microsemantics as a Bootstrap in Teaching Formal Methods

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      Teaching Formal Methods: Practice and Experience (TFM)
      Teaching Formal Methods: Practice and Experience
      15 December 2006
      calculational reasoning, domain-independent problems, formal methods, lambda calculus, microsemantics, state equations, substitution, program semantics, teaching
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            Abstract

            Introducing an elementary form of program semantics early in the curriculum provides a good preamble to formal methods. Microsemantics uses only the most basic concept in formal mathematics, namely substitution , and therefore can be presented as early as the second lecture of a freshman-level course. It can subsequently serve as a bootstrap for gradually introducing most of the other fundamental concepts of formal methods, leading up to formal systems specification and design.

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            December 2006
            December 2006
            : 1-6
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            [0001]INTEC — Universiteit Gent, Belgium
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            10.14236/ewic/TFM2006.13
            b551c60b-f1f1-4d8f-a511-4c3a70548215
            © Raymond Boute. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Teaching Formal Methods: Practice and Experience, BCS London Office, UK

            This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

            Teaching Formal Methods: Practice and Experience
            TFM
            BCS London Office, UK
            15 December 2006
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Teaching Formal Methods: Practice and Experience
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            teaching,substitution,calculational reasoning,state equations,formal methods,program semantics,lambda calculus,microsemantics,domain-independent problems

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