Math 3342, Theory of Computation

Spring 2022

General Information

Class Meetings: TF 2:00-2:50, W 3:00-3:50 McAuliffe 107

Instructor: Chris Staecker (Personal Homepage)

Email: cstaecker@fairfield.edu

Office Hours: TWF 10-11, TF 12-12:30, W 12-1, 2-3
All office hours are in Zoom. Zoom link: https://fairfield.zoom.us/j/5514910533

Final Exam: Tuesday May 10, 3PM

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Tests & Homework

1/26: Homework #1 due
Chapter 1: 1abde, 2, 4 ("set former" is like what you see in #1)
Chapter 2: 2, 3, 4, 9ab
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2/2: Homework #2 due
Chapter 2: 5ab, 6c, 7, 8
Chapter 3: 1ab, 8, 9, 10
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2/9: Homework #3 due
Chapter 3: 4 (in #4b, L is supposed to be L1), 5a
Chapter 5: 1, 3acdf, 4ad, 5bd, 7a, 8b, 9b, 10
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2/16: Homework #4 due
Chapter 6: 3, 6
Chapter 7: 1a-s
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2/23: Homework #5 due
Chapter 7: Give a regular expression for #1f and #1g, and convert them to NFA. Convert the NFAs in #4, 5, 6 to regular expression
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2/25: Exam #1
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3/9: Homework #6 due
Assignment PDF
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3/23: Homework #7 due
Chapter 10: 5cd, 6, 7b, 10f, 11abe, 13bc
Chapter 12: 1bfhjqr
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3/30: Homework #8 due
Chapter 13: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6ac
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4/1: Exam #2
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4/13: Homework #9 due
Chapter 13: 7, 9, 12, 13
Also these problems
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4/20: Homework #10 due
These problems
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4/27: Homework #11 due
These problems
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5/10: Final Exam, 3PM
 

Class recordings

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