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Logic and Language Models for Computer Science
by Henry Hamburger, Dana Richards
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Prentice Hall (2002-01-17)
ISBN: 0130654876
EAN: 9780130654878
Dewy Decimal #: 005.131
Paperback: 341 pages
SKU: T081817-5396
Condition: Good
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
For sophomore/junior-level courses in, Logic, Automata Theory, Theory of Computation/CS Theory, Discrete Mathematics, and Complexity Theory. This text provides students with in-depth explorations of a broad range of theoretical topics in computer science. It plunges into the applications of the abstract concepts in order to confront and address the skepticism of many students, and instill in them an appreciation for the usefulness of theory.
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This book reminds me of an elegent proof
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-05-30
If you are looking for a cookbook or picture book approach or googled snippet of information this is not the book for you. What you will find is a book written with logical clarity usually missing in computer science and discrete math books. If you like to think logically and understand a topic instead of just memorizing it and if you are interested in the role of abstraction, logic and proofs in computer science, this is the book for you.
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Pure Garbage
Rating  (1)
Date: 2007-01-03
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is one the worst books I have used. I took this class with one of the authors and this book seems to be really lacking and so does the author when it comes to teaching. Get something better. But you will probably be stuck with having to get this for the course since the homeworks are from this book.
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The worst book I have ever read.
Rating (1)
Date: 2005-04-17
3 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
The book is very poor on examples and the ones that it has do not make any sense. Topics like automata and removing nondeterminisim are not explained well enough(only one non-sense example for nondeterminism). Awful diagrams. It is not going step by step to understand Prolog and Lex. In short, if you have choice don't buy the book and if you have bought it already, don't waste time reading it. Unfortunately, I had not other option, I have bought the book and am reading it.
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I Just Don't Understand Why We Use This Book
Rating  (2)
Date: 2003-02-27
5 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
So far, my impression of this book is this. First, it's not very well written, and is often hard to understand. Concepts are not very well elaborated on. I'm having to go on the net to get better explanations... Second, I wish they would use more pictures for certain concepts, definately not a book for a visual learner. Honestly, I don't know why we are required to use this book for class, but I guess if I must, I'll use it. Professors should read this rating thing before they get these books... Hope this helps.
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His class isn't all that either
Rating (1)
Date: 2002-01-16
8 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
I have read the book and taken the class at George Mason University where he teaches and boy are there a lot of mistakes in the book. He should publish another book (the errata). If you are considering taking this class don't.
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