Agreed; I took this the first time around and had a great time. Highly recommended! :) For what it's worth, Sipser's _Introduction to the Theory of Computatio

Agreed; I took this the first time around and had a great time. Highly recommended! :) For what it's worth, Sipser's _Introduction to the Theory of Computation_ helped me get through some of the gnarlier spots (and in turn, the lectures through some of the harder parts of the book). I picked up a used copy of the 2nd edition cheap off Amazon (it was sub-$20 iirc).