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TICTTL 2011: Tools for Teaching Logic pp 77–84Cite as

Satoulouse: The Computational Power of Propositional Logic Shown to Beginners

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We present a tool (Satoulouse) that can help teachers, particularly in computer science, to convince undergraduate students that logic may be powerful. It is to be used very early in a logic course, in order to enhance students’ motivation to learn propositional logic. Satoulouse simply consists of a friendly interface that offers several syntactic facilities and which is connected with a sufficiently powerful SAT-prover (namely SAT4J) allowing to automatically solve big instances of difficult problems (such as time-tables or Sudokus).

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  • Teaching logic in computer science
  • SAT solvers
  • constraint solving

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  1. IRIT (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse), Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

    Olivier Gasquet, François Schwarzentruber & Martin Strecker

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  1. INRIA Nancy Grand-Est, 615, rue du Jardin Botanique, 54602, Nancy Cedex, Villers lès, France

    Patrick Blackburn

  2. Dpto. Filosofía y Lógica, Universidad de Sevilla, C/ Camilo José Cela s/n, 41018, Sevilla, Spain

    Hans van Ditmarsch

  3. Dpto. de Filosofia, Universidad de Salamanca, Campus Unamuno, Edificio FES, 37007, Salamanca, Spain

    María Manzano

  4. Dpto. de Filosofia y Lógica, Universidad de Sevilla, C/ Camilo José Cela s/n, 41018, Sevilla, Spain

    Fernando Soler-Toscano

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Gasquet, O., Schwarzentruber, F., Strecker, M. (2011). Satoulouse: The Computational Power of Propositional Logic Shown to Beginners. In: Blackburn, P., van Ditmarsch, H., Manzano, M., Soler-Toscano, F. (eds) Tools for Teaching Logic. TICTTL 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6680. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21350-2_10

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