| Week of | Material Covered | Remarks |
| January 12 | Introduction and Preliminaries Chapter 1 - Preliminaries Reasons, Evaluation, Classifications |
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| January 19 | Chapter 2 - Evolution of Major Programming Languages Classifications, History. Data Structures and types used in Programming Languages.Chapter 3 - Describing Syntax and Semantics Compilers Grammars; Chomsky Hierarchy Context-Free Grammars, BNF |
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| January 26 | Chapter 4 - Lexical and Syntax Analysis Syntax diagrams, Recursive Descent Parsing Attribute Grammars, Semantics Introduction to C and UNIXScripting Languages and Shell Programming Chapter 5 - Names, Bindings, Type Checking and Scopes Names, Variables, Bindings Type Checking, Scope of Bindings, Environments |
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| February 2 | Chapter 6 - Data Types Specification and Implementation. Models. Primitive typesStrings. Arrays, records, files, sets, and pointers |
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| February 9 | Chapter 16 - Logic Programming Languages Predicate Calculus; Horn Clauses Introduction to Prolog Environment and Syntax Backtracking List and List MatchingComplete Prolog. |
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| February 16 | Mid-semester break. No classes. | 16 Monday Islander Day. No classes. |
| February 23 | Chapter 15 - Functional Programming Languages Overview; Lambda expressions Introduction to Scheme Scheme/LISP: language features |
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| March 2 | Chapter 7 - Expressions and Assignment Arithmetic Expressions, Overloaded operators, Relational and Boolean operators. |
Class Test #1 |
| March 9 | Chapter 8 - Statement-Level Control Structures Compound, Selection and Iterative StatementsChapter 9 - Subprograms and Chapter 10 - Implementing Subprograms |
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| March 16 | Specific Languages Php, perl, COBOL ... |
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| March 23 | Specific Languages continue |
Class Test #2 |
| April 6 | Chapter 12&11 - Object Oriented Programming |
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| April 13 | Examples |
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| April 20 | Review |