Understanding Regular Languages & Finite Automata: A Beginner’s Guide 🤖
Discover the fundamentals of regular languages, finite automata, and their relation to Turing machines in this insightful video. Perfect for beginners exploring automata theory!

Thomas Kern
2.4K views • Sep 1, 2022

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Remember: you can't spell finite automaton without "tomato"
In this video I mention "Turing Complete"-ness and "Turing Machines". Video 11 (https://youtu.be/--G5gB_vjNM) talks about them some more, but simply know that nearly all modern computer programs are equivalent in the kinds of programs you can write in them. These programming languages and any other abstract system of computation that is equivalent are called "Turing Complete". "Turing Machines" are the most commonly presented such abstract system, and consist of a finite amount of easy to access memory along with an infinite tape of memory.
If you have questions or something didn't make sense to you, let me know in the comments below.
"Kernighan and Ritchie" is the book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language
The IDE is "Borland C", which you can play around with here: https://archive.org/details/msdos_borland_turbo_c_2.01
In this video I mention "Turing Complete"-ness and "Turing Machines". Video 11 (https://youtu.be/--G5gB_vjNM) talks about them some more, but simply know that nearly all modern computer programs are equivalent in the kinds of programs you can write in them. These programming languages and any other abstract system of computation that is equivalent are called "Turing Complete". "Turing Machines" are the most commonly presented such abstract system, and consist of a finite amount of easy to access memory along with an infinite tape of memory.
If you have questions or something didn't make sense to you, let me know in the comments below.
"Kernighan and Ritchie" is the book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language
The IDE is "Borland C", which you can play around with here: https://archive.org/details/msdos_borland_turbo_c_2.01
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