CS330 - Formal Methods and Models - Fall, 2004 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
703-993-1550 rcarver@cs.gmu.edu Office Hours: T, R 12:30-1:30 p.m. in ST2-343 and by appointment | ||||||||
|
wwagner@gmu.edu Office Hours: Mon. 4-6pm, Tues. 1-3pm and 7:30-9:30pm, ST2 room 365. | ||||||||
|
Do This! | Prerequisites | Description | Text | Grading
|
|
|
(The two test files are the same, except for the end-of-line characters, which are different in Unix and Windows.)
| | ||||
| PREREQUISITES : CS 211 and Math 125 (C or better in both). | ||||||||
|
DESCRIPTION :
This course is an introduction to two kinds of formal systems: logics and languages. Each of these areas is crucial to a computer science education and each of them leads directly to important computing applications. Various systems of logic and automatic reasoning are currently used in artificial intelligence, database theory and software engineering. The study of formal languages underlies important aspects of compilers and other language processing systems, as well as the theory of computation. The entire course will give you practice in precise thinking and proof methods that play a role in the analysis of algorithms. The programming assignments in Prolog and Lex provide practical experience with some course issues. | ||||||||
|
TEXT :
The course text, Logic and Language Models for Computer Science, was developed at GMU along with this course by two GMU faculty members. | ||||||||
|
ASSIGNMENTS, TRANSPARENCIES & HINTS:
| ||||||||
GRADING :
| ||||||||