CSE 143, Winter 2019

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Honors Section

This quarter we are reading The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley.

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

Meeting time

Thu 3:30-5:20 in CSE 503

Relevant Links

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

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

1/10	no reading
1/17	Prologue & Chapter 1
1/24	Chapter 2
1/31	Chapter 3
2/7	Chapter 4
2/14	Chapters 5 and 6
2/21	Chapter 7
2/28	Chapters 8 and 9
3/7	Chapter 10
3/14	Chapter 11