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Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering
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Computer Science 456/656
Formal Languages and Automata
Fall 2021

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Instructor:
Dr. Larmore
Office, TBE B378B. Telephone ☎ 702-895-1096. Email: lawrence "dot" larmore "at" unlv "dot" edu
Office Hours:
There will be no physical office hours this semester. We will use Zoom.
Contacting Me:
You may telephone my office. Please do not leave a telephone message.
It's best to send me email. Be sure to write "CS456" in the subject field so that I know what the message is about. (I delete lots of messages without reading them, based on the subject fields.)
Please, never try to communicate with me by leaving notes on my door, under my door, or in my mailbox in the department office, as those notes get lost, and I can't retrieve them remotely.
If it is necessary to give me something, please leave it with the department staff, and then send me an email message saying that the item has been left for me.
Graduate Assistant:
Shekhar Singh
Email: shekhar "dot" singh "at" unlv "dot" edu
Office: TBE-B346 or TBE-B361. (Look in both places.)
Office Hours: 11:00 - 1:00 Fridays.
Days of Instruction:
August 23, 2021 - December 1, 2021.
Place of Instruction:
SEB 1240
Time of Instruction:
11:30 -- 12:45 Mondays and Wednesdays
Labor Day Recess:
September 6
Textbook:
Formal Languages and Automata, by Peter Linz. Change from Last Semester
Fifth or sixth edition ok.
Prerequisites:
CS 302 (Data Structures)
MAT 351 (Discrete Mathematics II).
Click here if you did not take both CSC 302 and MAT 351 at UNLV and receive a grade of "C" or better in each of those two courses.
Topics Covered:
Graduate Students:
If you want graduate credit, you must enroll in 656, not 456.
Each CSC 656 student must turn in at least one challenge problem and turn it in by the last week of class. CS 456 students are also permitted to work challenge problems, but I will not permit students to improve a poor grade in this manner. The reason for this policy is that I want students who are doing poorly in the course to devote their energy to mastering the regular material.