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An Introduction to Formal Languages and Automata
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Author: Peter Linz
List Price: $87.95
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ISBN: 0763714224
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Pub (01 October, 2000)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 328,662
Average Customer Rating: 2.54 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 3 out of 5
Boring subject
This subject is confusing in general, I have this professor and he's really confusing, but when I read his own book it's actually better that him.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Not a good book
First off, let me say this book did not confuse me. It's just very poorly written. If this was the only Automata book I ever read, my review would not mean as much. On the contrary, I have read 4-5 Automata books and have taught the topic numerous times. I urge teachers and students to avoid this book. If you would like a great book covering this material, get Dexter Kozen's Automata and Computability. That book is so well written and elegant that it puts most of the other books to shame. It is one of the top CS books on my list along with SICP, CLRS, and a few others. In addition, the "OLD" version of Hopcroft and Ullman is pretty good but the newer version with Motwani is bad. Anyways, I hope this helps some of you who are looking for a good book to read.
Rating: 5 out of 5
for the brainy one
Lot of review didn't like this book simply because it was "confusing", well this subject is inherently confused. I had to use this book for one of my course, and to my opinion is it a good book, it does a good job of explaining the concept, providing enough proof but not to the point that it bogged down the reader. If you put some effort in and actually think about all the concept/algorithm, you will like it much better, to those that couldn't understand this book, get a new major, i don't think your brain is fit for CS or any engineering major, may i suggest liberal art? or some type of social sci?
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