| Week of | Material Covered | Remarks |
| September 1 | Introduction to Theory of Computing | |
| September 8 | Mathematical review | |
| September 15 | Finite automata | |
| September 22 | Finite automata | |
| September 29 | Regular Expressions and Languages | |
| October 6 | Properties of Regular Languages | |
| October 13 | Monday 13 Thanksgiving Day. No classes. |
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| October 20 | Midterm Context Free Grammar and Languages |
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| October 27 | Pushdown Automata | |
| November 3 | Properties of Context-Free Languages | |
| November 10 | Student Development Day. No Classes. Introduction to Turing Machines. |
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| November 17 | Undecidability and Intractable Problems | |
| November 24 | Review |