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Introduction to Theory of Computation

Introduction to Theory of Computation

Introduction to Theory of Computation

This is a free textbook for an undergraduate course on the Theory of Computation, which have been teaching at Carleton University since 2002.Topics covered includes: Finite Automata and Regular Languages, Context-Free Languages, Turing Machines and the Church-Turing Thesis, Decidable and Undecidable Languages and Complexity Theory.

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