R23CSE · 3-1✓ VERIFIED VS. PUBLISHED SYLLABUS 2026-07-09
Formal Languages and Automata TheoryJNTUK R23 · CSE · semester 3-1 · syllabus
This JNTUK R23 professional core course is listed for Computer Science and Engineering (CSE). It is listed in semester 3-1. It carries 3 credits. The published coverage runs across 5 units, from Finite Automata through Turing Machines and Decidability.
Verification scopeSubject name, credits, unit-wise syllabus, and course outcomes are sourced directly from JNTUK's own official R23 course structure and syllabus document, not an autonomous college's adaptation.
What you'll be able to do
Explain the foundational concepts of automata theory and construct various finite automata (DFA, NFA, epsilon-NFA, Mealy and Moore machines), including minimization and applications
Apply regular expressions, regular grammars, pumping lemma, and closure properties to describe and analyze regular languages
Develop and simplify context-free grammars, analyze derivations and parse trees, and convert grammars into normal forms while evaluating ambiguity
Design pushdown automata and demonstrate their equivalence with context-free grammars for recognizing context-free languages
Construct Turing Machines and analyze decidability, undecidability, PCP, the halting problem, and complexity classes (P, NP, NP-hard, NP-complete)
5 units, from Finite Automata to Turing Machines and Decidability. Tick off units as you cover them — your progress stays on this device.