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Using SPARK for a beginner's course on reasoning about imperative programs

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Teaching beginners predicate transformer semantics for imperative languages is not a trivial task. For Computer Science majors, the teaching of the theoretical material must be supported by suitable practical course work. For this, we need a suitable language with appropriate tool support. In this paper, we describe our experience of using SPARK and its tools for this purpose. Our experience has been a very positive one. practical work.

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      cover image ACM Conferences
      SIGAda '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM international conference on SIGAda annual international conference
      November 2007
      116 pages
      ISBN:9781595938763
      DOI:10.1145/1315580
      • cover image ACM SIGAda Ada Letters
        ACM SIGAda Ada Letters  Volume XXVII, Issue 3
        SIGAda '07
        December 2007
        93 pages
        ISSN:1094-3641
        DOI:10.1145/1315607
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