🧮 Theory of Computation & Automata

Can every problem be solved by a computer? How do we prove a program will never finish? What makes some problems fundamentally harder than others? Theory of Computation answers these deep questions — and they turn out to be some of the most practically important in all of computer science.

This course builds from mathematical foundations through finite automata, regular languages, context-free grammars, Turing machines, and computational complexity. The legendary P vs NP problem — one of the Millennium Prize Problems with a $1 million reward — is explained clearly and intuitively. Every abstract concept is grounded with concrete examples from real computing.