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Microsemantics as a Bootstrap in Teaching Formal Methods

Raymond T. Boute

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Introducing an elementary form of program semantics early in the curriculum provides a good preamble to formal methods. Microsemantics uses only the most basic concept in formal mathematics, namely substitution , and therefore can be presented as early as the second lecture of a freshman-level course. It can subsequently serve as a bootstrap for gradually introducing most of the other fundamental concepts of formal methods, leading up to formal systems specification and design.

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Introducing an elementary form of program semantics early in the curriculum provides a good preamble to formal methods. Microsemantics uses only the most basic concept in formal mathematics, namely substitution , and therefore can be presented as early as the second lecture of a freshman-level course. It can subsequently serve as a bootstrap for gradually introducing most of the other fundamental concepts of formal methods, leading up to formal systems specification and design.

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Introducing an elementary form of program semantics early in the curriculum provides a good preamble to formal methods. Microsemantics uses only the most basic concept in formal mathematics, namely substitution , and therefore can be presented as early as the second lecture of a freshman-level course. It can subsequently serve as a bootstrap for gradually introducing most of the other fundamental concepts of formal methods, leading up to formal systems specification and design.

Key concepts: Formal methods, Computer science, Formal semantics (linguistics), Programming language, Refinement, Formal system, Formal specification, Grammar systems theory

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