Formal Languages and Automata Theory

What Will You Learn?

• This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory of automata, formal languages, and their applications in computer science. By the end of the course, students will:
• Understand the fundamental concepts of automata theory, including deterministic and non-deterministic finite automata (DFA and NFA).
• Learn how to convert between different types of automata (e.g., NFA to DFA, ε-NFA to DFA).
• Explore regular expressions, regular languages, and their properties.
• Gain knowledge of context-free grammars (CFG), pushdown automata (PDA), and Turing machines.
• Understand the hierarchy of automata and their computational power.
• Apply automata theory to real-world problems such as lexical analysis in compilers and pattern recognition.