onlineSPARC: A Programming Environment for Answer Set Programming

Recent progress in logic programming (e.g. the development of the answer set programming (ASP) paradigm) has made it possible to teach it to general undergraduate and even middle/high school students. Given the limited exposure of these students to computer science, the complexity of downloading, in...

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Published in:Theory and practice of logic programming Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 262 - 289
Main Authors: MARCOPOULOS, ELIAS, ZHANG, YUANLIN
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.03.2019
Subjects:
Animation
Downloading
Logic programming
Logic programs
Mathematical programming
Original Article
Programming environments
Special Issue on User-Oriented Logic Programming and Reasoning Paradigms
Students
logic programming
visualization
CS education
answer set programming
integrated development environment
ISSN:1471-0684, 1475-3081
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Summary:Recent progress in logic programming (e.g. the development of the answer set programming (ASP) paradigm) has made it possible to teach it to general undergraduate and even middle/high school students. Given the limited exposure of these students to computer science, the complexity of downloading, installing, and using tools for writing logic programs could be a major barrier for logic programming to reach a much wider audience. We developed onlineSPARC, an online ASP environment with a self-contained file system and a simple interface. It allows users to type/edit logic programs and perform several tasks over programs, including asking a query to a program, getting the answer sets of a program, and producing a drawing/animation based on the answer sets of a program.
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ISSN:1471-0684
1475-3081
DOI:10.1017/S1471068418000509