| Week of | Material Covered | Remarks |
| January 10 | Introduction and Preliminaries Chapter 1 - Preliminaries Reasons, Evaluation, Classifications Chapter 2 - Evolution of Major Programming Languages Classifications, History. |
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| January 17 | Chapter 3 - Describing Syntax and Semantics Compilers Grammars; Chomsky Hierarchy Context-Free Grammars, BNF Chapter 4 - Lexical and Syntax Analysis Syntax diagrams, Recursive Descent Parsing Attribute Grammars, Semantics Introduction to C |
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| January 24 | Chapter 5 - Names, Bindings, Type Checking and Scopes Names, Variables, Bindings Type Checking, Scope of Bindings, Environments Chapter 6 - Data Types Specification and Implementation. Models. Primitive typesStrings. Arrays, records, files, sets, and pointers |
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| January 31 | Chapter 16 - Logic Programming Languages Predicate Calculus; Horn Clauses Introduction to Prolog Environment and Syntax Backtracking List and List Matching |
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| February 7 | Complete Prolog. |
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| February 14 | Chapter 15 - Functional Programming Languages Overview; Lambda expressions Introduction to Scheme Scheme/LISP: language features Midterm |
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| February 21 | Islander Day and Mid-semester break. No classes |
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| February 28 | Chapter 7 - Expressions and Assignment Arithmetic Expressions, Overloaded operators, Relational and Boolean operators. |
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| March 7 | Chapter 8 - Statement-Level Control Structures Compound, Selection and Iterative StatementsChapter 12&11 - Object Oriented Programming Chapter 9 - Subprograms and Chapter 10 - Implementing Subprograms |
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| March 14 | Student Presentations |
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| March 21 | Student Presentations |
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| March 28 | Student Presentations |
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| April 4 | Student Presentations |