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Title: Introduction to Computer Theory by Daniel I. A. Cohen ISBN: 0-471-13772-3 Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: 25 October, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $102.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent
Comment: I must say this is one of the best books I have ever read. The auther is humorous and insightful. He manages to take very abstract concepts and explain them in clear concrete terms and metaphors.
Rating: 4
Summary: Discursive presentation. Helpful for novices.
Comment: The book has one important attribute: it's clear, undoubtedly. Having a minimum of prerequisites, I think there's no way to not understand what Prof. Cohen says through its pages. It makes the job of learning this part of theory easier than any other text.
But ... but I can't totally agree with Cohen's crusade against formalism. I agree that the first target of a book should be to clearly transmit the intended knowledge, and Cohen perfectly succeeds in this. But formalism too has its importance, thereafter. A compact and clear formalism helps to communicate efficiently, and moreover unambiguously. Like in mathematics, the first, important thing is to understand. Yet, there's no way for you to efficiently work with math without using any kind of formalism, should it be more or less "standard".
That's it: a very powerful book for a "profound" understanding of the subject; a bit more of natural formalism would make it a "complete" understanding also, and the book a five stars one.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book!
Comment: This is a great book. I read the first edition many years ago, and it too was great. Everything is explained in order, and explained well - it is very accessable, even to the casual reader interested in the topics presented. It was through this book that I was able to actually write software that demonstrated Kleene's Theorem, (RE=NFA=DFA) converting between Regular Expressions, NFA's and DFA's.
Unlike many textbooks, reading this one is actually FUN. By the time I was done, I felt that I understood everything that was presented. That's how good this text is.
// CHRIS (Darien, Connecticut)
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Title: Operating System Concepts (Windows Xp Update) by Abraham Silberschatz, Greg Gagne, Peter Baer Galvin ISBN: 0471250600 Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: 08 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $95.95 |
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Title: Computer Organization and Architecture by William Stallings ISBN: 0130351199 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 15 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $108.00 |
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Title: Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation (2nd Edition) by John E. Hopcroft, Rajeev Motwani, Jeffrey D. Ullman ISBN: 0201441241 Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company Pub. Date: 14 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $105.00 |
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Title: Java Programming: Advanced Topics by Joe Wigglesworth, Paula McMillan ISBN: 0619159685 Publisher: Course Technology Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $67.95 |
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Title: Introduction to the Theory of Computation by Michael Sipser ISBN: 053494728X Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: 13 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $103.95 |
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