Languages and Machines

Catalog description

A study of two classes of languages: formal languages (regular, context-free, and computable) and their associated machines (finite automata, pushdown automata, and Turing machines). Other topics include programming languages, focusing on the essential features of imperative, functional, object-oriented, and logic programming languages, together with their design and implementation on modern computers. Prerequisite: C grade or better in CSC 232 ; and MTH 314 or MTH 315 .