This is not the current CS/ECE-374-B site. 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.
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 for guiding my through this course my first semester. He is one of the most under-rated professors in UIUC and a large part of my teaching is based on what I learned from him. Andrew Miller is also an awesome instructor and the semesters I've taught with him have definitely been my favorite. I would also like to thank my amazing graduate and undergrdauate 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.
Course Description
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.