What websites are there out there that are about alphabets, strings
and languages? Where could I find a basic website that concerned with
computer languages?

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Clarification of Question by camillalog-ga on 04 Mar 2004 18:55 PST

What exactly does alphabets, strings and languages have to do with finite automata?

Hello Camillalog,

There is a good summary of finite state machines (finite automata) at:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_state_machine
which for the three terms you refer to, I can summarize as follows:

  Alphabet - generally represented as Sigma, is the set of symbols
that are accepted by the FSM. For example, a simple FSM accepting
binary numbers would have an alphabet of {0, 1}.

  String - a sequence of symbols. This is explained in a little more detail at
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String#Mathematics
The above URL should take you directly to the math related definition.

  Language - the set of strings that are "accepted" by the FSM. When
you define the finite automata, you specify one or more accept states.
The string is "accepted" if you are in one of those accept states when
the FSM is done processing the string.

There are a number of other good references on line. Search using phrases such as
  alphabet string finite automata
  alphabet string language FSM
and similar phrases. For example
  http://www.cs.appstate.edu/~dap/classes/2490/chap5.html
has a number of good examples.

  --Maniac