CSE 143X: Computer Programming I/II (accelerated), Autumn 2018

Honors Section

This quarter we are reading The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt.

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

Meeting time

Wed 4:30-6:20 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

10/3	no reading
10/10	Intro & Chapter 1
10/17	Chapters 2-3
10/24	Chapters 4-5
10/31	Chapters 6-7
11/7	Chapters 8-9
11/14	Chapters 10-11
11/21	no meeting
11/28	Chapters 12-13
12/5	Conclusion