TPFOSSS: A Modified TPS Technique to Improve Student´s Conceptual Understanding of Compiler Construction Course

Author

Dol, Sunita M. ; Gandhamal, Dattatray P.

Author_Institution

CSE Dept., Walchand Inst. of Technol., Solapur, India

fYear

2014

fDate

18-21 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

245

Lastpage

248

Abstract

TPFOSSS (Think-Pair Free Open Source Software-Share) is a cooperative learning activity and modified activity of TPS in which free open source software e.g. Parsing Simulator for Compiler Construction or JFLAP simulator for Theory of Computation etc. Can be used in TPS activity. Providing "think time" in TFOSSPS improves quality of student responses. This activity develops skills of sharing information, improves the interaction, listening, asking questions, summarizing others\´ ideas etc. In this paper, we present how TPFOSSS works, advantages of TPFOSSS over TPS and experimental results. The experiment carried out is two group experimental studies.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer science education; program compilers; public domain software; JFLAP simulator; TP_FOSSS; Think-Pair _{Free Open Source Software}-Share; compiler construction course; cooperative learning activity; information sharing skills; modified TPS technique; parsing simulator for compiler construction; student conceptual understanding; student response quality; think time theory; Conferences; Context; Education; Grammar; Open source software; Program processors; Visualization; Compiler Construction (CC); Parsing Simulator; TPFOSSS (Think-Pair Free Open Source Software-Share); Think-Pair-Share (TPS); t-Test;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Technology for Education (T4E), 2014 IEEE Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Clappana

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/T4E.2014.56

Filename

7009581