Regex parser II: Teaching regular expression fundamentals via educational gaming

Ariel Rosenfeld; Abejide Ade-Ibijola; Sigrid Ewert

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-69670-6_7

Regex parser II: Teaching regular expression fundamentals via educational gaming

Ariel Rosenfeld
, Abejide Ade-Ibijola
, Sigrid Ewert

University of the Witwatersrand
University of Johannesburg

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

7 Scopus citations

Abstract

We present an educational game that is expected to improve the teaching of and stimulate the interest in regular expressions. The game generates regular expressions using pseudo-random numbers and predefined templates and asks the player to provide strings that are in the language corresponding to the given regular expression while a timer counts down. Points in the game are awarded on how many strings the player was able to enter before time runs out (The game, which requires the JRE, is available via http://bit.ly/RegexParserII).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICT Education - 46th Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers Association, SACLA 2017, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Janet Liebenberg, Stefan Gruner
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	99-112
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Print)	9783319696690
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69670-6_7
State	Published - 2017
Externally published	Yes
Event	46th Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers’ Association, SACLA 2017 - Magaliesburg, South Africa Duration: 3 Jul 2017 → 5 Jul 2017

Publication series

Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	730
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929

Conference

Conference	46th Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers’ Association, SACLA 2017
Country/Territory	South Africa
City	Magaliesburg
Period	3/07/17 → 5/07/17

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Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017.

Keywords

Computer science education
Educational games
Regular expressions

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Rosenfeld, A., Ade-Ibijola, A., & Ewert, S. (2017). Regex parser II: Teaching regular expression fundamentals via educational gaming. In J. Liebenberg, & S. Gruner (Eds.), ICT Education - 46th Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers Association, SACLA 2017, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 99-112). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 730). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69670-6_7

Rosenfeld, Ariel ; Ade-Ibijola, Abejide ; Ewert, Sigrid. / Regex parser II : Teaching regular expression fundamentals via educational gaming. ICT Education - 46th Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers Association, SACLA 2017, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Janet Liebenberg ; Stefan Gruner. Springer Verlag, 2017. pp. 99-112 (Communications in Computer and Information Science).

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Rosenfeld, A, Ade-Ibijola, A & Ewert, S 2017, Regex parser II: Teaching regular expression fundamentals via educational gaming. in J Liebenberg & S Gruner (eds), ICT Education - 46th Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers Association, SACLA 2017, Revised Selected Papers. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 730, Springer Verlag, pp. 99-112, 46th Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers’ Association, SACLA 2017, Magaliesburg, South Africa, 3/07/17. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69670-6_7

Regex parser II: Teaching regular expression fundamentals via educational gaming. / Rosenfeld, Ariel; Ade-Ibijola, Abejide; Ewert, Sigrid.
ICT Education - 46th Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers Association, SACLA 2017, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Janet Liebenberg; Stefan Gruner. Springer Verlag, 2017. p. 99-112 (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 730).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Rosenfeld A, Ade-Ibijola A, Ewert S. Regex parser II: Teaching regular expression fundamentals via educational gaming. In Liebenberg J, Gruner S, editors, ICT Education - 46th Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers Association, SACLA 2017, Revised Selected Papers. Springer Verlag. 2017. p. 99-112. (Communications in Computer and Information Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-69670-6_7

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