CSE 355: Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science (Fall 2008)

Syllabus

Time and Place: TTh 3-4:15 p.m., BYAC 150

Instructor: Joohyung Lee (joolee (at) asu (dot) edu)

Instructor's Office Hours: W 5-6 p.m., F 1-2 p.m., and by appointment (preferably made at least one day ahead), BY 574.

TA: Yunsong Meng (Yunsong.Meng (at) asu (dot) edu)

TA's Office Hours: TTh 1:30-3:00 p.m., BY 513BA

Textbook: Introduction to the Theory of Computation (2nd ed.), Michael Sipser, Published by Course Technology

Description: This course is an introduction to several important topics in theoretical computer science: regular languages, finite automata, context-free languages, pushdown automata, Turing machines, Church-Turing Thesis, Decidability, Reducibility.

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