CSE 143, Spring 2014

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Honors Section

This quarter we are reading The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee.

Students must attend seven of the planned nine sections to receive credit for the seminar.

Meeting times

Tue 3:30-5:20 in CSE 503
Wed 5:00-6:50 in CSE 503

Reading assignments

4/1 - 4/2	no reading
4/8 - 4/9	Chapters 1-2
4/15 - 4/16	Chapters 3-4
4/22 - 4/23	Chapters 5-6
4/29 - 4/30	Chapters 7-8
5/6 - 5/7	Chapters 9-10
5/13 - 5/14	Chapters 11-12
5/20 - 5/21	Chapters 13-14
5/27 - 5/28	Chapter 15

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)