Course Program:
Instructor: Cem SAY
Room: BM 39
E-mail: sayboun.edu.tr (say[at]boun.edu.tr)
Teaching Assistant: Özlem Salehi
Room: BM 26
E-mail: ozlem.salehiboun.edu.tr (ozlem.salehi[at]boun.edu.tr)
Office Hour: Wednesday 11:00-13:00
Exam dates:
Midterm 1 : March 10, Friday 10:00-12:00 @ NH101, NH103
Midterm 2 : April 14, Friday 10:00-12:00 @ NH101, NH103
Final : June 1, Thursday 10:00-12:00 @ NH301, NH302
Catalog Data: Strings and Languages. Classification of Grammars. Finite-state automata and regular expressions. Push-down automata and context-free grammars. Turing machines.
Topics:
- Strings and Languages
- Finite Automata and Regular Languages
- Context-free Languages
- The Church-Turing Thesis
- Decidability
- Reducibility
Prerequisite: CmpE 220 or equivalent
Textbook:
Michael Sipser. Introduction to the Theory of Computation. PWS Publishing Company, 3rd Edition.