Course Information

Instructor Contact Information

  • Instructor: Thoshitha Gamage, Ph.D.
  • Office: EB 3053
  • Phone: (618) 650-2407
  • Email: TGAMAGE (AT) SIUE (DOT) EDU
  • Web Site: http://www.cs.siue.edu/~tgamage
  • Office Hours: T & TR 10:50 -- 12:20 p.m., W & TR 01:50 -- 03:00 p.m. or by appointment

Course Material

  • Syllabus: Download |syllabus.pdf
  • Tentative Schedule:
    Week Dates Topic Slides PS
    01 Aug. 22   Course Introduction and Administrivia
    Aug. 24   Regular Languages: Deterministic Finite Automata (DFA)
    02 Aug. 29   In-Class Problem Solving Session 01
    Aug. 31   Non-Deterministic Finite Automata (NFA)
    03 Sep. 05
    Sep. 07   Closure Properties and Equivalence
    04 Sep. 12   Regular Expressions
    Sep. 14   Pumping Lemma and Non-Regular Languages
    05 Sep. 19   Context-Free Languages (CFL):
    Sep. 21   Context-Free Grammars
    06 Sep. 26   midterm exam i
    Sep. 28   Push-Down Automata (PDA), Normal Forms
    07 Oct. 03   Pumping Lemma for CFL
    Oct. 05   CFL Properties and Equivalence
    08 Oct. 10   Recursively-Enumerable Languages (REL):
    Oct. 12   Recursive vs. REL
    09 Oct. 17   Turing Machines (TM)
    Oct. 19
    10 Oct. 24   Halting Problem
    Oct. 26   midterm exam ii
    11 Oct. 31   -- buffer space for fallover --
    Nov. 02   Computational Complexity: Undecidability
    12 Nov. 07   Complexity Classes: P, NP, NP-C
    Nov. 09   P vs. NP
    13 Nov. 14   Satisfiability, Cook’s Theorem
    Nov. 16   Church-Turing Thesis
    14 Nov. 21   thanksgiving break
    Nov. 23
    15 Nov. 28   Topics in Cybersecurity
    Nov. 30   Topics in Cybersecurity
    16 Dec. 05  
     
    Dec. 07  
     
    17 Dec. 13   final Exam: 12:00 -- 01:40 p.m.
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Course Assignments

Week Assigned on Assignment
01 Aug. 22 Computer Science Cheat Sheet| Link to JFLAP|
02 Aug. 29  PS01|
03 Sep. 07 Graduate Project Proposal [Dropbox] |
09 Oct. 19 Graduate Project Progress [Dropbox] |
13 Nov. 16 Graduate Project Slides [Dropbox] |
16 Dec. 07 Graduate Project Final Report [Dropbox] |
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