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Abstract | ||
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Design and quality are fundamental themes in engineering education. Functional programming builds software from small components, a central element of good design, and facilitates reasoning about correctness, an important aspect of quality. Software engineering courses that employ functional programming provide a platform for educating students in the design of quality software. This pearl describes experiments in the use of ACL2, a purely functional subset of Common Lisp with an embedded mechanical logic, to focus on design and correctness in software engineering courses. Students find the courses challenging and interesting. A few acquire enough skill to use an automated theorem prover on the job without additional training. Many students, but not quite a majority, find enough success to suggest that additional experience would make them effective users of mechanized logic in commercial software development. Nearly all gain a new perspective on what it means for software to be correct and acquire a good understanding of functional programming. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2007 | 10.1017/S095679680700634X | J. Funct. Program. |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
good design,engineering education,engineering software correctness,software engineering course,functional programming,quality software,additional training,additional experience,commercial software development,functional subset,embedded mechanical logic,computational logic,software engineering,declarative programming | Programming language,Software design,Computer science,Theoretical computer science,Software development process,Component-based software engineering,Software construction,Software quality,Software framework,Software development,Social software engineering | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
17 | 6 | 0956-7968 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
5 | 0.48 | 4 |
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1 | ||