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CMPUT 474 - Formal Languages, Automata, and Computability

Course Career Undergraduate
Units 3
Approved Hours 3-0-0
Fee index 6
Faculty Science
Department Computing Science
Typically Offered either term

Description
Formal grammars; relationship between grammars and automata; regular expressions; finite state machines; pushdown automata; Turing machines; computability; the halting problem; time and space complexity. Prerequisites: CMPUT 204 and one of MATH 102, 125, 126, or 127.