Wilfrid Laurier University  - 2001/2002 Undergraduate Academic Calendar
 Course Description 
| CP414 Foundations of Computing **NEW** 0.5 | 
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 Deterministic and nondeterministic finite automata (DFAs and NFAs), regular expressions, context-free grammars, relationship of push-down automata and context-free grammars, definition of the classes P and NP, NP-completeness (Cook's theorem), standard NP-complete problems, reduction techniques, Turing machines. The halting problem.  | 
| Prerequisite: CP312, MA238. | 
      
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Official electronic version updated on February 4, 2002