COM SCI 284A · CS 284ATopics in Automata and Languages
Computer Science · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Additional requisites for each offering announced in advance by department. Selections from families of formal languages, grammars, machines, operators; pushdown automata, context-free languages and their generalizations, parsing; multidimensional grammars, developmental systems; machine-based complexity. Subtitles of some current and planned sections: Context-Free Languages (284A), Parsing Algorithms (284P). May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor and topic change.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 181.
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COM SCI 284A
- COM SCI 181Theory of Computing
- COM SCI 180Introduction to Algorithms and Complexity
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