CA created resources from this and past semesters

Teaching document development

Creating new content is difficult and usually a task for me and the TAs. However, a few CAs have taken up the challenge of making new content:

• Jigsaw problem reduction
  • Manuscript: pdf
  • Author: Sumedh Vemuganti
• Even more DP problems (Extra Lab)
  • Manuscript: Questions Solutions
  • Author: Hamza Husain
• NFA-to-DFA subset construction:
  • Author: Mike Montano
• Manim introduction:
  • Author: Jeep Kaewla
• Manim tutorial - Djikstra:
  • Author: Kevin Lim
• Lecture notes - Decidability:
  • Author: Ifesi Onubogu

Animations

Animations are a great way to help explain concepts. A few CAs have used the Manim library to create some animations for some of the more difficult course topics:

• Language Transformation example:
  • Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuZFHpmOotQ
  • Code: https://github.com/kevtool/ECE374_Video
  • Author: Kevin Lim
• Reductions example:
  • Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWWXXwp1Ya8
  • Code: https://github.com/kevtool/ECE374_Video
  • Author: Kevin Lim
• LIS explainer:
  • Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buB-VifgeNE
  • Code: https://github.com/jeeepx/AlgoAnimation
  • Author: Jeep Kaewla

Problem development

Last semester (and part of this one) I conscripted quite a few CAs to develop problems for a new algorithms course I’m developing specifically for ECE. That course unfortunately got delayed (though I’m still working on it and it will be approved soon). I have these problems in a repo waiting to be deployed but until they are, I want to extend my sincere gratitude to the following individuals for developing the following problems.

• Jeep Kaewla
  • Problem: Find windows of string S that has characters of T
    • Concept Tested: Hashing
  • Problem: Rotodrome
    • Concept Tested: Hashing
• Erin Kim
  • Problem: Poker chips
    • Concept Tested: Dynamic programming
• Frederick Lee
  • Problem: Traversal of Trees
    • Concept Tested: BFS/DFS
  • Problem: Majority SAT
    • Concept Tested: Approximate algorithms
• Kevin Lim
  • Problem: Matching stick lengths
    • Concept Tested: Divide and Conquer
  • Problem: Index-value matching
    • Concept Tested: Divide and Conquer
  • Problem: Vertex with cost
    • Concept Tested: Shortest paths
• Ayu Seiya
  • Problem: horse racing
    • Concept Tested: Data Structures
  • Problem: Expression tree evaluation
    • Concept Tested: BFS/DFS
• Qing Wang
  • Problem: Parentheses matching
  • Concept Tested: Data Structures
  • Problem: Mother vertex
    • Concept Tested: Directed graphs
• Zikui Wang
  • Problem: Seating arrangements
    • Concept Tested: BFS/DFS
  • Problem: Arbitrage
    • Concept Tested: Dynamic programming
  • Problem: 3Color to SAT reduction
    • Concept Tested: reductions

Watch out for these problems coming to a course near you soon (once that course is launched I will make sure you guys get your due there as well).

Infrastructure support

I’d like to also mention the following CAs how have helped develop the backend systems of the course:

• New course infrastructure - Erin Kim
• New course website - Rubin Zou