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While logic plays an important role in several areas of Computer Science (CS), most educational software developed for teaching logic ignores their application in a more large portion of the CS education domain. In this paper we describe an innovative methodology based on a logic teaching tool on semantic tableaux to prepare students for using logic as a formal proof technique in other topics of CS, such as the formal verification and the declarative debugging of imperative programs, which are at the basis of a good development of software.
This work has been partially supported by the Spanish projects TIN2008-06622-C03-01 (FAST-STAMP), S2009/TIC-1465 (PROMETIDOS), UCM-BSCH-GR58/08-910502 (GPD-UCM), and PIMCD 2010/97 (Project for the Innovation and Improvement of the Educational Quality).
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del Vado Vírseda, R., Orna, E.P., Berbis, E., de León Guerrero, S. (2011). A Logic Teaching Tool Based on Tableaux for Verification and Debugging of Algorithms. In: Blackburn, P., van Ditmarsch, H., Manzano, M., Soler-Toscano, F. (eds) Tools for Teaching Logic. TICTTL 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6680. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21350-2_29
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