18 students - prefer JFLAP
9 students - paper first, JFLAP for testing
3 students - both equally well
3 students - prefer paper
``On paper it is complicated and tiresome to move states around: erasing, and redrawing. On JFlap it was simple to move states around and analyze possible inputs in a given FA. The tool is extremely helpful.'' and
``I prefer using JFLAP to drawing on paper. It is much easier to construct complex FA with JFLAP, and testing them is also much simpler.''