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Automata Theory
NC State University
1 recommender · 1 thread · recommended in 1 year, 2015 · score 0.7
A university-level course on automata theory, covering finite automata, formal languages, and the computational models that underpin the theory of computation. It is offered by NC State University, including through its distance education program with videotaped lectures, projects, and proctored exams.
The one commenter calls the NC State instruction excellent for theory classes like Automata and says the online sections are run like in-person classes with no transcript notation.
CS Fundamentals & Systemsintermediatevideo lectures#automata theory#formal languages#computation theory#distance education#nc state
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Is it NC State? I found the instruction there excellent--at least for theory classes like Automata, Decision And Complexity Theory as well as Data Structures. They offer a real distance education that is run just like an in-person class, with videotaped lectures, projects, and proctored exams. They are one the few universities that offer the full repertoire of bachelor CS classes online, a little known secret. Even though their distance education isn't well marketed, you could complete in theory a BS computer science remotely just through NC State--something that you can't quite yet do with MITx or Udacity--and in addition, their online CS classes do not have an asterisk on your transcript indicating they were taken online, since you are often lumped into a section with the in-person class.