WEEK #11

I think this is the second week in a row that I am attending Thursday's evening lecture and having attended the morning lectures all the preceding weeks I must say that in my opinion the evening one is much better. This is due to the fact that the topics that are going to be covered within that week are presented in one sitting and therefore you get a better understanding of them. I must admit that, in general, 3-hour lectures are not too great but CSC236's is actually very good (probably due to the professor).
On another (related) note, the lecture for this week started with a method of proving if a DFSA works or, in more technical terms, ends up in an accepting state when it is suppose to. From that the topic slightly altered from DFSAs to NFSAs, which seem to be a condensed version of DFSAs where multiple states are combined in a single one. Then there was another slight turn towards the topic of cartesian products, which in this case was a machine that was a combination of at least two other machines. The lecture was concluded with an interlink of NFSAs and cartesian product machines.