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Author: Peter Linz
ISBN : B007KOYNQG
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Direct download links available Free An Introduction to Formal Languages and Automata from with Mediafire Link Download LinkWritten to address the fundamentals of formal languages, automata, and computability, An Introduction to Formal Languages and Automata provides an accessible, student-friendly presentation of all material essential to an introductory Theory of Computation course. It is designed to familiarize students with the foundations and principles of computer science and to strengthen the students' ability to carry out formal and rigorous mathematical arguments. In the new Fifth Edition, Peter Linz continues to offer a straightforward, uncomplicated treatment of formal languages and automata and avoids excessive mathematical detail so that students may focus on and understand the underlying principles. In an effort to further the accessibility and comprehension of the text, the author has added new illustrative examples and exercises throughout.
There is a substantial amount of new material in the form of two new appendices, and a CD-ROM of JFLAP exercises authored by Susan Rodger of Duke University. The first appendix is an entire chapter on finite-state transducers. This optional chapter can be used to prepare students for further related study. The second appendix offers a brief introduction to JFLAP; an interactive software tool that is of great help in both learning the material and in teaching the course. Many of the exercises in the text require creating structures that are complicated and that have to be tested for correctness. JFLAP can greatly reduce students’ time spent on testing as well as help them visualize abstract concepts. The CD-ROM that accompanies every new printed copy expands this and offers exercises specific for JFLAP. (Please note, ebook version does not include the CD-ROM)
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- Print Length: 437 pages
- Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning; 5 edition (February 14, 2011)
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- Language: English
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This is a terrible book. The author spends way to much time on unimportant/irrelevant example topics and does not give you the tools necessary to complete the exercises. Additionally the solutions in the back appear to be only for easy problems. Hope that you are not required to use such an awful book...
By Corey Bort
There is a format that mathematical writing follows: You define terms, you states theorems, and you prove theorems. In between these elements, you include narrative sections, which can clarify and explain, provide concrete examples, or do anything else to accommodate the reader. It should be very clear to the reader whether a passage is a definition, a theorem, a proof, or something else.
The book mangles this format. It pretends to give definitions, (labelled "Definition"), but then scatters vital parts of the definition between examples, theorems, and unstructured rambling.
For example, what is a "Grammar"? Linz tells us in Definition 1.1 that a grammar is a set a four sets, which are called "Variables", "Terminals", "Start Symbol", and "Productions". Thus ends Definition Box 1.1. Great. So a grammar is four sets called W, X, Y, and Z, each of which has never been mentioned before and will never be defined later. Literally, there is no part in the surrounding pages where Linz finally says "In the above definition, the set "Productions" is defined to be a set of X". Linz talks _about_ the set "Productions", and you can suss out the actual definition, but he refuses to just give an outright definition and label it as such. Linz would be better off copying the wikipedia definition, which immediately defines "Productions" in an unambiguous way, and doesn't force you skim the next few pages looking a definition which will never be given.
The entire book has this problem of only _naming_ things in definitions, and actually defining things in a rambling way over the next few pages.
Avoid this book. Please don't assign it to your students.
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