CSE 143, Spring 2018

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Honors Section

This quarter we are reading iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us by Jean Twenge.

Students must attend eight of the planned ten sections to receive credit for the seminar.

Meeting time

Wed 4-5:50 in CSE 503

Relevant Links

Robin Dunbar on Shakespeare
Smarties test from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Google Ngram data
Google Ngram viewer

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)

Reading assignments

3/28	no reading
4/4	Intro & Chapter 1
4/11	Chapters 2-3
4/18	Chapters 4-5
4/25	Chapter 6
5/2	Chapter 7
5/9	Chapter 8
5/16	Chapter 9
5/23	Chapter 10
5/30	Conclusion