Adding a graphical output to a theorem prover: Results of a comparison of the acceptance from a teaching point of view

Abstract

This article describes the experience and results obtained from teaching computational logic in an introductory course for undergraduates. The proposed teaching approach helps students to reach a deeper level of understanding in first order logic representation, computational logic procedures and automated theorem proving. The article includes the description of SLI, a theorem prover with a graphical output and the results of a survey to assess the acceptance of the tool. ß 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 23:837-845, 2015; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/cae; DOI 10.1002/cae.21654