Introduction

Catalog of Turing machines based on "The Annotated Turing" by Charles Petzold.

A Turing machine is composed by a list of m-configurations; the configuration and the behaviour of the Turing machine is described into the Turing machine Table.

The Turing machine Table is composed of 4 columns, the first pair of columns describes the configuration of the machine and the second pair of columns describes the behaviour of the machine. The first column contains the m-configuration, the second column contains the tape square scanned symbol, the third column contains the operations and the fourth column contains the next m-configuration.

The following is an example of a Turing machine Table:

m-config	symbol	operations	final m-config
b	none	P0,R	c
c	none	R	e
e	none	P1,R	f
f	none	R	b

The machines make use of a one-dimensional tape divided into squares.

The application prints at every computational stage the complete configuration (the current m-configuration, all the symbols into the tape and the position of the head).

There are some assumptions:

• The machines compute binary numeric sequences
• The machines use only alternate squares for printing numeric sequences
• The tape does not extend infinitely toward the right
• The symbol "none" of the Table symbol column corresponds to a square with no symbol (blank square)
• The symbol "any" of the Table symbol column corresponds to any non-blank symbol
• The Table operations column contains zero, one or more operations
• The available operations are: R (right), L (left), P (print), E (erase)
• The erase operation is not compared to a print operation with no symbol
• An error is thrown by print operation if the head square is already filled with a symbol
• The Turing machine evolution starts with the first m-configuration listed in the Table

Turing machine initial setup:

• The initial tape is composed of 20 blank squares
• The head is located on the first square of the initial tape

Features:

• Turing machine async evolution
• The initial tape square symbols are editable
• The initial tape squares count can be changed

Development

Setup

Install NodeJS version 19.5.0 or higher. See: https://nodejs.org/it/download/

Development server

Run npm run serve for a dev server. Navigate to http://localhost:4200/. The app will automatically reload if you change any of the source files.

Run npm start on another terminal for open dev Electron window.

Build

Run npm run build to build the project. The build artifacts will be stored in the dist/ directory. Use the -prod flag for a production build.

Running unit tests

Run npm run test to execute the unit tests via Jest.

Production

Build and Create Docker Image

docker-compose build

Run Application

docker-compose up

Access the application

http://localhost:80

Demo

https://sitmcella.github.io/turing-machine/