CSI 3104 Introduction to Formal Languages

3 units
Computer Science
Faculty of Engineering
Regular languages, finite automata, transition graphs Kleene's theorem. Finite automata with output. Context-free languages, derivation trees, normal form grammars, pumping lemma, pushdown automata, determinism. Decidability. Recursively enumerable languages, Turing machines, the halting problem.

Components:

Lecture

Requirements:

Prerequisite: CSI 2101 or MAT 1348 .

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Organized

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Learned a Lot

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Fair Assessments

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