Finite State Automata - 1 - Introduction

What are Finite State Automata? What does one look like? How are they useful? Here we introduce the concept of Finite State Automata, as well as the meaning of these three words.

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This video was made for the "Formal Languages" chapter of the Computer Science Field Guide.
This is a free online interactive textbook written for High School students.
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