Exploring Turing Machines

Create and Use Simple Computers

Activities

• Reading Assignment:
  • Chapter five of What Can be Computed? A Practical Guide to the Theory of Computation
• Monday:
  • No new presentation slides due for this week
• Tuesday:
  • Instructor’s presentation on this week’s assigned topics
  • Review of the format for knowledge checks
• Tuesday Laboratory:
  • Knowledge-checks:
    • Approximately five-minute interviews completed in random order
    • Knowledge-check focuses on key concepts explained during module
    • Rescheduled to Week Six due to the course instructor’s absence
  • Retrospective Presentations:
    • Instructor assigns teams for the retrospective presentations
    • Teams pick and present their own topics on this module’s content
    • Teams collaboratively complete their retrospective presentations
    • Team-based presentations occur next week on Tuesday and Thursday
• Thursday:
  • Instructor’s presentation on this week’s assigned topics
  • Charette session where students collaboratively ask and answer questions

Slides

Full Screen: Week Five: Turing Machines