CSE 143: Computer Programming II, Spring 2013

Honors Sections

This quarter we are reading The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt. Students must attend seven of the planned nine sections to receive credit for the seminar.

Meeting times

• Wed 4:30-6:20 in CSE 503
• Thur 3:30-5:20 in CSE 503

Reading assignments

4/3 - 4/4	no reading
4/10 - 4/11	Righteous Mind 1-2
4/17 - 4/18	Righteous Mind 3-4
4/24 - 4/25	Righteous Mind 5-6
5/1 - 5/2	Righteous Mind 7
5/8 - 5/9	Righteous Mind 8
5/15 - 5/16	Righteous Mind 9
5/22 - 5/23	Righteous Mind 10-11
5/29 - 5/30	Righteous Mind 12-conclusion
6/5 - 6/6	no meeting

Automata

We discussed how to make a Finite State Machine and a Turing Machine. I used a program called JFLAP to build these machines:

• click here to download JFLAP
• click here to see a picture of our Turing Machine
• click here to download the JFLAP file (save as palindrome.jff)