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1: Preliminaries – Automata and Languages

Course week(s) Week 1
Course subject(s) 1: Preliminaries – Automata and Languages

Description: This module captures some important preliminaries to the course. These include the notions of deterministic and non-deterministic finite state automata, regular languages, grammars, context-free grammars, context-free languages and Chomsky normal form.

Book: Introduction to the Theory of Computation, parts of chapters 1 and 2.

Key Concepts:

  • Finite State Automata
  • Determiinistic Finite State Automata
  • Regular Languages
  • Nondeterministic Finite State Automata
  • Closure Property
  • Grammars
  • Context-free Grammars
  • Context-free Languages
  • Chomsky Normal Form
Module 1
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