Course syllabus for CPSC 810A Formal Languages and Applications Course description: Present highlights of the foundations of computer science. This course will introduce the relationships between formal languages and automata; focus on the regular language, regular expression, regular grammar, finite state automata, context-free language, context-free grammar and push-down stack automata; provide basic principles of compilers and compiler design, lexical analysis, parsing techniques, syntax directed translation, symbol tables, storage administration, error detection and code generation. Thus, this course will provide both theoretical and practical foundation of modern computer science