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Automatic Feedback Generation for the Learning of Regular Expressions

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Olaperi Okuboyejo; Sigrid Ewert; Ian Sanders – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2025

Regular expressions (REs) are often taught to undergraduate computer science majors in the Formal Languages and Automata (FLA) course; they are widely used to implement different software functionalities such as search mechanisms and data validation in diverse fields. Despite their importance, the difficulty of REs has been asserted many times in…

Descriptors: Automation, Feedback (Response), Error Patterns, Error Correction