Lectures

1. Basic notions about relations, functions, formal languages [Part 1 (7 pages)]
2. Finite state automata [Part 2 (18 pages)]
3. Regular expressions [Part 3 (12 pages)]
4. Properties of regular languages [Part 4 (15 pages)]
5. Chomsky grammars and context free languages [Part 5 (25 pages)]

Exercises [notes by Kurt Ranalter]

1. Functions and relations [Exercise 1]
2. Deterministic finite automata [Exercise 2]
3. Deterministic and nondeterministic finite automata [Exercise 3]
4. Subset construction [Exercise 4]
5. Finite automata with epsilon-transitions [Exercise 5]
6. Regular expressions and regular languages [Exercise 6]
7. Finite automata vs. regular expressions [Exercise 7]
8. Properties of regular languages, pumping lemma [Exercises 8 and 9]
9. Minimization of finite automata [Exercise 10]
10. Context-free and context-sensitive grammars [Exercise 11]
11. Normal forms for context-free grammars [Exercise 12]