Dear ITCS312 students.
Welcome to the world of theoretical computer science. My name is Hesham al-Ammal and I’ll be your instructor for the course. I hope that you’ll find it as fascinating and fun as I have. This page will be used throughout the semester to display course materials and notes and comments that you or I may have. So feel free to use it and return to it for information.
- email address: heshaaam at gmail
- Office: room s40-2076 or 1-56
- Tel: 1743-7645 or 1743-8088
- Office hours: UTHÂ 8am-9am.
- Course Outline (in Word 2007 format).
- Textbook publisher’s page (including errata).
Course announcements:
- (9/10/2011) Tomorrow’s lecture will be at 8am (10/10/2011) as usual. The lab assistant will take you through JFLAP and will give you the first lab assignment.
- Some solutions for problems in section 3.2
- A solution for Quiz4 question on non-regularity
Here’s a list of selected exercises from the book which I think will be helpful to solve:
- Section 1.2: 4,5,7,11-15.
- Section 2.1:1-5,7,9,11-18,20,22.
- Section 2.2: 2-8,10,12.
- Section 2.3: 2,3,5,6,11,12.
- Section 3.1: 1-18 (except 16(d) and 16(e)).
- Section 3.2: 1-5,8-10,11-13.
- Section 3.3: 1-7,10-13.
- Section 4.1: 2,3,6,7.
- Section 4.3: 3-10,11,13-16.
- Section 5.1: 2-9,11,13,15-23.
- Section 5.2: 6-18.
- Section 6.1: 5-9.
- Section 6.2: 2-5,10-13.
- Section 7.1: 1,3-6,10-14.
- Section 7.2: 3-6. (not included this semester)
- Section 9.1: 2-7, 8,9,11,12.
- Section 11.1: 1,2,6.
Please check your grades below and let me know if there are any problems: itcs312-1112a-50percentGrades
I’ll update it later to account for the lab and project marks to reflect the 60%.
Here’s the updated grades for 60% including the project and lab grades: itcs312-1112a-Sessional
Note: Whatever I have of your quiz and midterm papers are available with my secretary Mrs. Salwa Almas.
Latest update of the sessional grades (22/1/2012) itcs312-1112a Update (2)
