A Tool for Visualization of Parsers: JFLAP

Thu Zar Khaing

Abstract


In recent years, tools for computer aided gaining knowledge of have come to be great on all degrees of education. Those equipment are used as options or additions to traditional methods of teaching, so as to wastage of student time to absorb the taught course. Then again, these tools are very plenty useful to the students people who are having the burden of course teachers while getting ready complicated examples when you consider that those can be created and accomplished in real time and then analyzed in elegance. To advantage knowledge other than the normal methods, we have developed JFLAP tool, a device for studying primary concepts of Formal Languages and Automata principle. The main goal of the JFLAP tool is to create Type 0 languages, Type 1 languages, Type 2 languages, Type 4 languages, Parsers and visually present complex concepts and mathematical models of Automata Theory fundamentals. In this paper, we suggest, JFLAP converts user defined i.e. Context free Grammar to SLR (easy LR) parsing table and presents it to the user in a form of state diagram, Parsing table and Derivation table.

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JFLAP, Context-Free Grammars, LR Parsers and Computer aided learning, Context-Free language.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.52155/ijpsat.v18.2.1538

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