More Programming Than Programming: Teaching Formal Methods in a Software Engineering Programme
2022; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1007/978-3-031-06773-0_23
ISSN1611-3349
AutoresJames Noble, David Streader, Isaac Oscar Gariano, Miniruwani Samarakoon,
Tópico(s)Logic, programming, and type systems
ResumoFormal methods for software correctness are critical to the future of software engineering—and so must be an essential part of software engineering education. Unfortunately, formal methods are often resisted by students due to perceived difficulty, mathematicity, and practical irrelevance. We redeveloped our software correctness course by taking a programming intensive approach, using the solver-aided language Dafny to provide instant formative feedback via automated assessment. Our redeveloped course increased student retention and resulted in the best evaluation for the course for at least ten years.
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