TENTATIVE SCHEDULE FOR CPT S 317 (Spring 2014)
* Homework links will be activated on their posting dates.
| Class | Day | Date | Topic | Readings (sections) |
Assignments* |
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| Due | Posting | |||||
| 1 | M | 1/13 | Course introduction, introduction to automata theory | Chapter 1 | ||
| 2 | W | |||||
| 3 | F | Finite Automata (DFA & NFA) | Chapter 2 | |||
| --- | M | 1/20 | MLK Day (holiday) | |||
| 4 | W | |||||
| 5 | F | Equivalence of DFA & NFA, epsilon-transitions | HW1 (rubrics) | |||
| 6 | M | 1/27 | Regular expressions | Chapter 3 | ||
| 7 | W | |||||
| 8 | F | HW1 | HW2 (rubrics) | |||
| 9 | M | 2/3 | ||||
| 10 | W | |||||
| 11 | F | Regular language properties: pumping lemma | Chapter 4 | |||
| 12 | M | 2/10 | HW2 | HW3 (rubrics) | ||
| 13 | W | Closure properties | ||||
| 14 | F | |||||
| --- | M | 2/17 | President's day (holiday) | |||
| 15 | W+ | Decision properties of regular languages | ||||
| 16 | F+ |
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HW3 | |||
| 17 | M | 2/24 | Equivalence & minimization of DFAs | |||
| 18 | W+ |
Midterm I |
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| 19 | F | Context free grammars & languages | Chapter 5 | |||
| 20 | M | 3/3 | ||||
| 21 | W | |||||
| 22 | F | Chapter 6 | ||||
| 23 | M | 3/10 | ||||
| 24 | W | Chapter 7 | HW4 (rubrics) | |||
| 25 | F | PDAs | ||||
| --- | M | 3/17 | Spring Break (no classes) | |||
| --- | W | |||||
| --- | F | |||||
| 26 | M | 3/24 | HW4 | |||
| 27 | W | CFL properties: simplification, normal forms | HW5 (rubrics) | |||
| 28 | F | |||||
| 29 | M | 3/31 | Pumping Lemma for CFLs | |||
| 30 | W | HW5 | HW6 (rubrics) | |||
| 31 | F | Closure properties for CFL | Chapter 8 | |||
| 32 | M | 4/7 | Turing machines | |||
| 33 | W | HW6 | HW7 (rubrics) | |||
| 34 | F | CFL review (HW 4, 5 & 6 ) | ||||
| 35 | M | 4/14 | Midterm II review | |||
| 36 | W |
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HW7 | |||
| 37 | F | Turing machines & extensions, RE languages ... | Chapter 9 | |||
| 38 | M | 4/21 |
Midterm II |
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| 39 | W | Undecidability, diagonalization, problem reduction | HW8 (rubrics) | |||
| 40 | F | |||||
| 41 | M | 4/28 | Intractable problems | Chapter 10 | ||
| 42 | W | P & NP, NP-completeness | ||||
| 43 | F | Course & finals review | HW8 | |||
| --- | M | 5/5 |
FINAL EXAM: FRIDAY, MAY 9, 3:10-5:10PM |
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| --- | W | |||||
| --- | F | |||||
* Instructor will be traveling these dates. An announcement will be made about alternative arrangements shortly before the respective class dates. Please look out for announcements regarding class schedule those dates.