A Theorem Prover for Scientific and Educational Purposes
This is an incremental tool for educational support in computer science, targeting students and researchers.
The authors developed a prototype theorem prover tool for educational purposes, focusing on the untyped lambda calculus to aid undergraduate students and researchers in understanding functional programming, but no concrete performance results or numbers are provided.
We present a prototype of an integrated reasoning environment for educational purposes. The presented tool is a fragment of a proof assistant and automated theorem prover. We describe the existing and planned functionality of the theorem prover and especially the functionality of the educational fragment. This currently supports working with terms of the untyped lambda calculus and addresses both undergraduate students and researchers. We show how the tool can be used to support the students' understanding of functional programming and discuss general problems related to the process of building theorem proving software that aims at supporting both research and education.