index.html

---
layout: default
title: Home
notitle: true

# groups of columns of {roles: list, width: num, image: bool}
role-tables:
- - roles: [faculty]
    width: 4
    image: true
  - roles: [grad]
    width: 8
    image: true
- - roles: [ugrad]
    width: 12
    image: true
- - roles: [grad-alum]
    width: 12
    image: true
- - roles: [ugrad-alum]
    width: 12
    image: true

# putting in a archived version for off-semesters
role-archive-tables:
- - roles: [faculty]
    width: 4
    image: true
  - roles: [faculty-alum]
    width: 8
    image: true
- - roles: [grad-alum]
    width: 12
    image: true
- - roles: [ugrad-alum]
    width: 12
    image: true
---

{% if site.archived == true %}   
<section style="text-align: center;">
    <a href="https://ecealgo.com/fa24" class="button-row button4"> Current iteration - Fall 2024 </a> 
</section>
{% endif %}

<div class="jumbotron">
    <p>
        This is <b>not</b> the current CS/ECE-374-B site if you want the current course website, click the big red button above. I have received many emails asking for my past course materials (mostly my lectures and exams) so I am keeping this site alive as a repository of the content I created during my tenure as a ECE374 instructor. I also spent a year learning Jekyll to create course website that is simple, clean, and lightweight on the front-end and is easy to update on the backend. I invite any professors to contribute to this effort and feel free to email me with any suggestions. 
        <hr>
        <details>
        <hr>
        <summary> Dedication </summary>    
        One of the most important things I've learned teaching a large course is that one's success is predicated on the abilities of the company he/she keeps and I have been very lucky to have great company. In particular,  I would like to thank Sariel Har-Peled and Andrew Miller for being great co-instructors. Most of all, I would also like to thank my amazing graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants that have shown so much dedication to the students and helped prop me up even when I was completely overwhelmed. Teaching assistants make or break the course and these guys definitely made it. 
        </details>
        <hr>
        <details>            
        <hr>
        <summary> Course Description </summary>
        CS/ECE 374 covers fundamental tools and techniques from theoretical computer science, including design and analysis of algorithms, formal languages and automata, computability, and complexity. Specific topics include regular and context-free languages, finite-state automata, recursive algorithms (including divide and conquer, backtracking, dynamic programming, and greedy algorithms), fundamental graph algorithms (including depth- and breadth-first search, topological sorting, minimum spanning trees, and shortest paths), undecidability, and NP-completeness. The course also has a strong focus on clear technical communication.
        </details>
    </p>
</div>

<section style="text-align: center;">
    <a href="https://piazza.com/" class="button button1">Forum (Piazza)</a> 
    <a href="https://www.gradescope.com/" class="button button2">Submit HWs (Gradescope)</a> 
    <a href="https://canvas.illinois.edu/" class="button button3">Gradebook (Canvas)</a> 
</section>

<section>
    <h2>News</h2>
    <ul class="news list-unstyled">
        {% for post in site.posts limit: site.front_page_news %}
            {% include news-item.html item=post %}
        {% endfor %}
    </ul>
    {% assign numposts = site.posts | size %}
    {% if numposts >= 1 %}
        <p>
            <span class="fa fa-fw fa-history"></span>
            <a href="{{ site.base }}/blog.html">Older posts&hellip;</a>
        </p>
    {% endif %}
</section>


<h2>Schedule Quicklinks</h2>
{% include quicklinks.html%}


{% if site.archived != true %}
<div id="people">
    <h2>People</h2>
    {% for role-table in page.role-tables %}
        <section class="people row justify-content-between">
            {% for role-column in role-table %}
                <div class="col-md-{{ role-column.width }}">
                    {% for role in role-column.roles %}
                        {% include role-people.html role=role image=role-column.image %}
                    {% endfor %}
                </div>
            {% endfor %}
        </section>
    {% endfor %}
</div>
{% else %}
<div id="people">
    <h2>People</h2>
    {% for role-table in page.role-archive-tables %}
        <section class="people row justify-content-between">
            {% for role-column in role-table %}
                <div class="col-md-{{ role-column.width }}">
                    {% for role in role-column.roles %}
                        {% include role-people.html role=role image=role-column.image %}
                    {% endfor %}
                </div>
            {% endfor %}
        </section>
    {% endfor %}
</div>
{% endif %}