Undergraduate Study at UIUC

Thank you to all the instructors for their efforts and time put into the courses. Their devotion, dedication, and passion for teaching have made a huge difference in my learning.

Code	Semester	Instructor	Title	Grade
ANTH101	y2021SP	Petara Jelinek	Introduction to Anthropology	A
CS124	y2021FA	Geoffrey Challen, Colleen Lewis	Intro to Computer Science I	A+
CS128	y2022SU	Michael Nowak	Intro to Computer Science II	A
CS173	y2022SU	Brad Solomon, Calvin Beideman	Discrete Structures	A+
CS225	y2023SP	Carl Evans, Brad Solomon	Data Structures	A
CS233	y2024FA	Craig Zilles	Computer Architecture	A+
CS307	y2023FA	David Dalpiaz	Model & Learning in Data Sci	A+
CS341	y2025SP	Lawrence Angrave	System Programming	A+
CS361	y2023SP	Hong-Ye Liu	Prob & Stat for Computer Sci	A+
CS415	y2024FA	Eric Shaffer	Game Development	B
CS498	y2025SP	Abdussalam Alawini	Data Management in the Cloud	A
EALC230	y2023FA	Myoung-Sun Song	Pop Cultures Contemp East Asia	A+
ESL115	y2021FA	Anna Romaniuk	Principles of Academic Writing	A+
INFO303	y2022FA	Antonio Hamilton	Writing Across Media	A
IS100	y2021FA	Tony Torres, Melissa Steinkoenig	Exploring the iSchool	A+
IS101	y2021FA	Judith Pintar	Intro to Information Sciences	A+
IS189	y2024FA	Jessie Chin	Independent Study	A+
IS199	y2021FA	David Dubin	Social Hist of Games & Gaming	A
IS199	y2022WI	Elizabeth Wickes	Intro to Command Line Tools	A
IS202	y2022SP	Lori Kendall, Peter Darch, Jessie Maimone	Social Aspects Info Tech	A
IS204	y2022SP	Stephanie Besser	Research Design Info Sciences	A+
IS206	y2022SP	Craig Evans	Intro Database Concepts & Apps	A+
IS308	y2022FA	David Mussulman	Race, Gender, and Information Technology	A
IS310	y2023SP	David Dubin	Computing in the Humanities	A
IS327	y2024SP	Yang Zhang	Concepts of Machine Learning	A
IS389	y2022FA	Jessie Chin	Independent Study	A+
IS389	y2023SP	Jessie Chin	Independent Study	A+
IS390	y2024FA	David Dubin	Decision Analysis and Modeling	A
IS445	y2023FA	Jill Naiman	Data Visualization	A
IS467	y2024SP	Peter Darch, Yuan-Xi Fu	Ethics & Policy for Data Scien	A
IS477	y2023FA	Bertram Ludaescher, Craig Willis	Data Mgmt, Curation, & Reprodu	A+
MATH257	y2024SP	Jer-Chin Chuang	Linear Algebra w Computat Appl	A+
SOCW297	y2022SP	David Chih	Asian Families in America	A
STAT107	y2022FA	Karle Flanagan, Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider	Data Science Discovery	A+
STAT207	y2023SP	Julie Deeke	Data Science Exploration	A+

Reflections on my CS Learning Journey

Undergraduate CS courses at UIUC

Course Number	Semester	Instructor	Title	Grade
CS124	y2021FA	Geoffrey Challen, Colleen Lewis	Intro to Computer Science I	A+
CS128	y2022SU	Michael Nowak	Intro to Computer Science II	A
CS173	y2022SU	Brad Solomon, Calvin Beideman	Discrete Structures	A+
CS225	y2023SP	Carl Evans, Brad Solomon	Data Structures	A
CS233	y2024FA	Craig Zilles	Computer Architecture	A+
CS307	y2023FA	David Dalpiaz	Model & Learning in Data Sci	A+
CS341	y2025SP	Lawrence Angrave	System Programming	A+
CS361	y2023SP	Hong-Ye Liu	Prob & Stat for Computer Sci	A+
CS415	y2024FA	Eric Shaffer	Game Development	B
CS498	y2025SP	Abdussalam Alawini	Data Management in the Cloud	A

CS225 Data Structures Assignments

Assignment	One-line Description
MP Stickers	Learning array data structure: pasting stickers onto images.
MP Lists	Learning list data structure and memory management.
MP Traversals	Learning Breath-First Search, Depth-First Search and Iterator concepts.
MP Mosaics	Learning k-d tree and using it to find most similar stickers.
MP Mazes	Learning Union-Find maze generation and using Breath-First Search to solve them.
MP Schedule	Learning graph data structure and graph coloring.
Lab Debug	Learning debugging methodologies and techniques.
Lab Memory	Learning to use `valgrind` to detect and fix memory related bugs.
Lab Quacks	Learning recursion, stack, and queue.
Lab Trees	Learning tree data structures.
Lab BST	Learning Binary Search Tree.
Lab AVL	Learning Adelson-Velsky and Landis Tree.
Lab Btree	Learning B-Tree (Balanced Bayer and Some other Bs Tree)
Lab Huffman	Learning Huffman Trees.
Lab Heaps	Learning Heap data structure.
Lab Dictionary	Learning dictionary (aka maps) abstract data types and implementations.
Lab Inheritance	Learning C++ Inheritance.
Lab Hash	Learning hash tables and different probing strategies.

CS341 System Programming Assignments

Assignment	One-line Description
MP Extreme Edge Cases	Learning C-strings and writing testcases.
MP Vector	Learning C-style data structure and memory managment.
MP Shell	Learning fork-exec pattern, pipe lines, and then implement a shell.
MP Malloc	Learning heap memory managment and allocation design details.
MP Password Cracker	Learning to use threads to boost performance.
MP Parallel Make	Learning "make" task execution details, graph topology sort, and threads.
MP Finding Filesystems	Learning file system design details, such as inode, direct blocks, and indirect blocks.
MP Nonstop Networking	Learning network handling and epoll.
Lab Luscious Locks	Learning low level debugging techniques.
Lab Perilous Pointers	Learning various memory faults.
Lab Utilites Unleashed	Learning fork-exec pattern, preparing for MP-shell.
Lab Mini Memcheck	Learning heap memory allocation details, preparing for MP-malloc.
Lab Teaching Threads	Learning threads.
Lab Critical Concurrency	Learning concurrency-related structures like lock and barrier.
Lab Deadlock Demolition	Learning deadlock and using cycle-detection to detect deadlock.
Lab Ideal Indirection	Learning page table walk.
Lab MapReduce	Learning concurrency related techniques.
Lab Charming Chatroom	Learning network related techniques.
Lab Deepfried DD	Learning `fseek` and `fread`.
Lab Mad Mad Access Patterns	Learning `mmap`.
Lab Savvy Scheduler	Learning different scheduling policies, like First-come-First-served and round robin.

CS421 Programming Languages and Compiler

Quizs: 25-Minutes-Long In-Class
- Quiz 1: Pattern Matching, Higher-Order Functions, and Recursion
- Quiz 2: ADTs and CPS Transformation
- Quiz 3: Substituion and Unification
Machine Problems:
- MP00: OCaml in VSCode.
- MP01: Basic Ocaml.
- MP02: Pattern Matching, Higher-Order Functions, and Recursion.
- MP03: Patterns of Recursion and Higher Order Functions.
- MP04: Continuations and Continuation-Passing Style.
- MP05: Working With ADTs, Implementing the CPS Transformation.
- MP06: Unification-Based Type Inferencer.
- MP07: Unification Algorithm.
- MP08: A Lexer for PicoML.
- MP09: Evaluator For PicoML.
- MP10: Evaluator For PicoML.
- MP11: Transition Semantics Evaluator for CPS.
Web Assignments
- WA01: Evaluation and Environments.
- WA02: Order of Evaluation.
- WA03: Evaluating the Application of a Function
- WA04: CPS Transformation; Working with Mathematical Specifications.
- WA05: Polymorphic Type Derivation.
- WA06: Incremental Unification Algorithm.
- WA07: Regular Expressions.
- WA08: Parse Trees.
- WA09: Natural and Transition Semantics.
- WA10: Lambda Calculus.
- WA11: Hoare Logic.

Coursera

I am deeply grateful to the following instructors for making their courses available on Coursera and other online platforms.

Specializations

Title	Instructor	Institution	Complete Date	Certificate Link
Accelerated Computer Science Fundamentals	Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider	UIUC	y2021m10d02	link
Full Stack Web Development with Angular	Jogesh K. Mulppala	HKUST	y2022m05d29	link

Courses

Title	Instructor	Institution	Complete Date	Certificate Link
Advanced C Programming	Ge Li	PKU	y2022m06d17	link
Building Web Applications in Django	Charlies Severance	UMich	y2022m09d03	link
Basic C Programming	Ge Li	PKU	y2021m10d16	link
Data Visualization	John C. Hart	UIUC	y2021m09d09	link
Front-End JavaScript Frameworks: Angular	Jogesh K. Mulppala	HKUST	y2022m02d28	link
Front-End Web UI Frameworks and Tools: Bootstrap 4	Jogesh K. Mulppala	HKUST	y2022m05d29	link
Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning	Martha White, Adam White	UAlberta, Amii	y2022m07d14	link
Getting started with TensorFlow 2	Kevin Webster	IC	y2021m11d08	link
HTML, CSS, and Javascript for Web Developers	Yaakov Chaikin	JHU	y2021m11d23	link
Introduction to C++ Programming and Unreal	Tim "Dr. T" Chamillard	UCO	y2022m06d08	link
Introduction to CSS3	Colleen van Lent	UMich	y2021m10d23	link
Introduction to HTML5	Colleen van Lent	UMich	y2021m10d08	link
Machine Learning	Andrew Ng	Stanford	y2021m09d26	link
Object-Oriented Data Structures in C++	Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider	UIUC	y2021m09d18	link
Ordered Data Structure	Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider	UIUC	y2021m10d01	link
React Basics	Meta	Meta	y2023m05d29	link
Sample-based Learning Methods	Martha White, Adam White	UAlberta, Amii	y2022m09d05	link
Server-side Development with NodeJS, Express and MongoDB	Jogesh K. Mulppala	HKUST	y2021m12d20	link
Single Page Web Applications with AngularJS	Yaakov Chaikin	JHU	y2022m02d15	link
Unordered Data Structures	Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider	UIUC	y2021m10d02	link
Web Application Technologies and Django	Charles Severance	UMich	y2022m08d28	link

Three.js Journey

Title	Instructor	Complete Date	Certificate Link
Three.js Journey	Bruno Simon	y2023m01d14	link

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