Course Schedule, CS A351

MS = Automata Textbook (Michael Sipser)
CLRS = Algorithms Textbook (Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein)

Date			Topic	Reading	Wk	Additional Reading Notes
M/W	Jan	14,16	Introduction and Motivation Mathematical Notation	MS: Chap 0	1	Intro: ppt, pdf Video: Lecture 1, Lecture 2
M/W	Jan	21,23	Mon, Jan 21: MLK Holiday Regular Languages: DFA	MS: Chap 1.1	2	DFAs: ppt, pdf Video: Lecture 3
M/W	Jan	28/30	NFA's Regular Expressions	MS: Chap 1.2-1.3	3	Regular Expressions: ppt, pdf Unix/Java RegEx: pdf Video: Lecture 4, Lecture 5
M/W	Feb	4/6	Pumping Lemma I Context-Free Grammars	MS: Chap 1.4, 2.1	4	Non-regular langs: pdf, ppt Context-Free Grammars: pdf, ppt Video: Lecture 6, Lecture 7
M/W	Feb	11,13	Pushdown Automata Pumping Lemma II	MS: Chap 2.2-2.3	5	Pushdown automata: pdf, ppt Pumping Lemma II: pdf, ppt Video: Lecture 8, Lecture 9
M/W	Feb	18,20	Turing Machines	MS: Chap 3	6	Turing Machines, Decidability: pdf, ppt Video: Lecture 10, Lecture 11
M/W	Feb	25,27	Decidability Reducibility	MS: Chap 4-5	7	P/NP: ppt, pdf Midterm Topics Sample Midterm Video: Lecture 12, Lecture 13
M/W	Mar	3,5	Time Complexity, P/NP Midterm, Wednesday, Mar. 5	MS: Chap 7, CLRS: Chap 34	8	Video: Lecture 14
M/W	Mar	11,12	Spring Break	.	9	.
M/W	Mar	17,19	Complexity, Algorithm Basics, Notation	CLRS: Chap 1-3	10	Algorithm Basics Recurrence Relations Video: Lecture 15, Lecture 16
M/W	Mar	24,26	Recurrence Relations	CLRS: Chap 4	11	Enumeration, Selection Video: Lecture 17, Lecture 18
M/W	Mar/Apr	31,2	Selection, Sorting	CLRS: Chap 6-9	12	Graph Basics: pdf, ppt Greedy Algos and Spanning Trees: pdf, ppt Max Flow: pdf, ppt Huffman codes: pdf Video: Lecture 19, Lecture 20
M/W	Apr	7,9	Graphs, Shortest Path	CLRS: Chap 22-24,26	13	Dynamic Programming: Word, pdf Video: Lecture 21, Lecture 22
M/W	Apr	14,16	Dynamic Programming	CLRS: Chap 15, 25	14	Computational Geometry: pdf String Matching: ppt, pdf Video: Lecture 23, Lecture 24
M/W	Apr	21,23	String Matching, Other Topics?	CLRS: Chap 32	15	Sample Final Questions: pdf Image compression: pdf Topics on the Final Exam Video: Lecture 25, Lecture 26
M/W	Apr/May	29,2	Final Exam Week (normal classes scheduled on Monday)	.	Finals Week	Video: Lecture 27 Final Exam Friday 5/2 10:00-12:45