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COSC 385 - Theory of Languages and Automata

3 credits
3 lecture hours.

This course is an introduction to the theory of automata, languages, syntax and basic characteristics of grammars and computability.  The course covers math preliminaries (sets, functions, and relations), languages, automata, and grammmars; Chomsky hierarchy; finite automata, regular expressions, and regular languages; push-down automata and context free languages; and Turing machines.  

Prerequisite(s) COSC 220  and COSC 281  completed with grades of “C” or higher
Offered (AS NEEDED)


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