Thursday, November 20, 2008

Week 10 - Regexes, FSAs

DFSA (Deterministic Finite State Automata) is a machine with transition functions, it shows regular expressions for things like L1 AND L2. Its name scared me for a second, but designing a DFSA was not as hard as it seemed. For the questions we discussed in lecture, the state invariant was pretty easy to figure out, the transition function that moves the machine from the present state to the next state was quiet straight forward, then the sketch of the transition to different states followed with logic. I think I did something similar to this before for circuits.

PROBLEM SET #5

This is a very easy problem set, the question is almost identical to the example given in lecture. But it's good that it got me looking over the slides again to review what I've learned.

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