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Formal Languages, Strings, and Proof Habits
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Alphabets, strings, languages as sets, concatenation/Kleene star, decision problems vs. functions, and the style of inductive/constructive proofs used throughout automata theory. Light refresh of discrete-math tools (sets, relations, induction, counting) tailored to languages.
Goal
Formally define languages and operations; write clear inductive proofs about strings and simple language properties; distinguish specification of a language from any particular recognizer.
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