School of Computer Science University of Waterloo

CS 360 Introduction to the Theory of Computing

Winter 2010

General Information

Lectures

10:00–11:20 T Th in MC 4058.

Instructor

Richard Trefler (David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science)
Email: trefler at cs.uwaterloo.ca.
Office: DC 2336.
Office hours: Friday April 16th 2-3, Wednesday April 21st 2-3, or by appointment.

Teaching Assistants


Fathiyeh Faghih
Email: ffaghihe at uwaterloo.ca
Office: DC 2551
Time: Wednesday April 14th, 11-12.
Amirhossein Vakili
Email: avakili at cs.uwaterloo.ca
Office: DC 2551
Time: Monday April19th, 1-2pm
Time: Thursday April 22nd, 1-2pm

Text, Lecture Schedule and Grading

The text book for the course is:

J. Hopcroft, R. Motwani and J. Ullman. Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation (Third Edition). Addison Wesley, 2007.

Lecture Schedule (including associated readings).

Test 3 is available to be picked up in the office hours.

4 assignments 15%.
3 in class tests 45%.
Final exam 40%.

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