CSE 143, Winter 2020

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Honors Section

This quarter we are reading The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt.

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

Meeting time

Wed 4:30-6:20 in CSE 303

Relevant Links

Robin Dunbar on Shakespeare
Smarties test from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Jesse Singal article on the IAT: Psychology's Favorite Tool for Measuring Racism Isn't Up to the Job
Jonathan Haidt's comments about his personal drug use

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

1/8	no reading
1/15	intro & Chapters 1 & 2
1/22	Chapters 3 & 4
1/29	Chapters 5 & 6
2/5	Chapter 7
2/12	Chapter 8
2/19	Chapter 9
2/26	Chapter 10
3/4	Chapter 11
3/11	Chapter 12 & conclusion