\documentclass{article}\usepackage{charter}\usepackage{hyperref}\usepackage{amssymb}\begin{document}\section*{Homework 1}\begin{enumerate}\item {\bf (Optional)} If you want to run the code presented in the lectures, install the Scala programming language available (for free) from\begin{center}\url{http://www.scala-lang.org}\end{center}\item {\bf (Optional)} Have a look at the crawler programs. Can you find a usage for them in your daily programming life?\item Read the handout of the first lecture and make sure youunderstand the concepts of strings and languages. \item In the context of the AFL-course, what is meant by the term \emph{language}?\item Give the definition for regular expressions. What is the meaning of a regular expression?\item Assume the concatenation operation of two strings is written as $s_1 @ s_2$. Define the operation of \emph{concatenating} two sets of strings.\item How is the power of a language defined? (Hint: There are two rules, one for $\_\!\_^0$ andone for $\_\!\_^{n+1}$.)\end{enumerate}\end{document}%%% Local Variables: %%% mode: latex%%% TeX-master: t%%% End: