It is due by: Tuesday, may 2-nd 2018 at 23:59:59.

What to do: The mid-term 2 consists of the following two distinct parts called Part 2.1 and Part 2.2.

Part 2.1: Design of a Turing machine. Each student must design a Turing Machine which, starting from the blank tape (that is, tape where every cell contains the blank symbol), writes the string "SERNAME Name enroll number: n.". Note: in the string "SERNAME Name enroll number: n.",

"SERNAME" is a variable to be replaced with the student's sername in upper case letters;

"Name" is a variable to be replaced with the student's first name where the first letter is upper case and the others are lower case letters;

"n" is a variable to be replaced with the student's enroll number;

the remaining characters in the sequence are to be taken literally.

For example, for the student Luca Pallini with enroll number 12345, the sequence "SERNAME Name enroll number: n." is equal to "PALLINI Luca enroll number: 12345."

For grading, I will check your machine with the Turing Machine Simulator. So, you must follow the notation given in the section "Turing machines and the concept of automatic work" and define the machine by giving a set of quintuples (s, a, t, b, m) separated by new line characters (do not separate the instructions with commas). Also, note that in the Turing Machine Simulator the balnk symbol is represented as "-".

Comment with no more than 10 lines what you have done. Also, when does the machine "Turing Machine Simulator" stops its computation ?

Part 2.2: Realize the "Notes on Automatic Communication A. A. 2017/18" collaboratively with Google Drive. Each student must choose and develop in the Google Doc shared file "Notes on Automatic Communication A. A. 2017/18" a topic we have covered in class and contained in Podcasting, blackboards and examples. Each student is free to do whatever he/she wants on the file. In particular, the student is also free to modify/improve content written by others (however, I would suggest you to make arrangements to resolve conflicts). To go to the file you can click on "Notes on Automatic Communication A. A. 2017/18". Note that, if a student does not have already the sharing permission, the first time he/she will be asked to request it to me (the file owner). Format the notes as close as possible to the present article (In particular, set alignment: justified, font family: Tahoma, font size: 9pt, and so on).

Submit your TM machine with comments and answer to the question in Part 2.1 and the notes developed in Part 2.2 into my site by logging in and submitting an article (with the USER MENU link "Submit Mid-term 2"). Note that with the "Show mid-term 2 articles" you can re-edit your own article as many times as you like. So you can actually work directly on my site. Format the article exactly as my articles (for example, as the present one. In particular, set alignment: justified, font family: Tahoma, font size: 9pt, and so on).

For grading, I will take into considerations

1. the english;
2. if what ever you developed is correct and how you developed the various concepts;
3. the html code of your submitted article. I want clean html psudo-code. Clean means only useful code. As I told You, myself 95% of the times I don't use the WYSIWYG editor but only use the source code editor and edit directly the html psudo-code. For example of clean code please see the source code of my articles (even the present one);

Good work and Good luck !!

-LGT