This course provides a comprehensive study of formal languages, covering regular languages, context-free languages, and recursively enumerable languages.
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56 Lessons
15h
Certificate of Completion
This course provides a comprehensive study of formal languages, covering regular languages, context-free languages, and recursively enumerable languages.
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Course Overview
What are the mathematics behind computers? What are the theoretical foundations of computer languages? Such questions can be explored by understanding formal languages and automata models. In this comprehensive course, you’ll explore formal languages, regular languages, and how to model them with their associated automata models. Next, you’ll cover regular expressions and grammar, and their equivalents. Then, you’ll explore context-free languages (the foundations of programming languages), pushdown automa...Show More
What You'll Learn
A solid understanding of formal languages, their structures and properties
Working knowledge of capabilities and limitations of different types of automata
The ability to convert between regular expressions, finite automata, context-free grammars and pushdown automata
Insights into computability theory, undecidability, reductions and the halting problem
What You'll Learn
A solid understanding of formal languages, their structures and properties
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Course Content
Getting Started
Exam on Formal Languages
Assessment
Finite Automata
Exam on Finite Automata
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Regular Expressions and Grammars
Exam on Regular Expressions and Grammars
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Properties of Regular Languages
Exam on Properties of Regular Languages
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Pushdown Automata
Exam on Pushdown Automata
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Context-Free Grammars
7 Lessons
Exam on Context-Free Grammars
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Properties of Context-Free Languages
7 Lessons
Exam on Properties of Context-Free Languages
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Turing Machines
8 Lessons
Exam on Turing Machines
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The Landscape of Formal Languages
4 Lessons
Exam on the Landscape of Formal Languages
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Computability
3 Lessons
Exam on Computability
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Conclusion
1 Lesson
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