Course Info
Last updated: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 23:39:56 -0500
This page lists basic information about the course such as people and times.
1 Staff
Instructor: Stephen Chang (email: Stephen.Chang)
TA: Jean Gerard (email: Jean.Gerard001)
TA: Anna Bosunova (email: Anna.Bosunova001)
TA: Richard Chang (email: Richard.Chang002)
(All emails are UMB addresses)
2 Lecture
Times
Lectures meet at the following times:
Mondays and Wednesdays 2:30-3:45pm
First Lecture: Monday, January 22, 2024
Last Lecture: Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Location: McCormack M03-0407
See also Lecture Policy.
3 Office Hours
To accommodate different needs, we will have both in-person and virtual office hours.
Office hours will be held weekly in-person, in McCormack, 3rd Floor, at these times:
(new) Tue 2:00-3:30pm EST (Anna Bosunova), room 0139
Thu 2:00-3:30pm EST (Jean Gerard), room 0139
Thu 3:30-5:00pm EST (Richard Chang), room 0139
Fri 2:00-3:30pm EST (Prof Chang), room 0201-03
Office hours will be held weekly via Zoom during these times:
Thu 3:30-5:00pm EST (Prof Chang) (see Blackboard for Zoom link)
Sat 12:00-1:30pm EST (Anna Bosunova) (moved to Tue in-person, see above)
Drop-ins are fine, but emailing in advance if you can would be helpful.
These will usually be group meetings, but one-on-ones are available upon request.
4 Textbook
Material from the course will be drawn from the the following textbooks:
Michael Sipser. Introduction to the Theory of Computation, 3rd edition. 2012, Cengage.
Hopcroft, Motwani, Ullman. Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation (link to archive.org), 3rd edition. 2007, Pearson.
In general, the lectures and slides are self-contained, but for reference I list book chapters to accompany each lecture.
In past courses, students that read the textbook chapters learn more from lecture and earn higher grades in the course.
5 Homework
Homework will be assigned weekly.
We will usually follow this schedule:
Homework out: Mondays 12:00 pm EST (noon)
Homework due: Mondays 12:01 pm EST (noon)
But the schedule may change due to holidays or other circumstances.
See also Homework Submission Policy.
6 Exams
There are no exams for this course this semester.