| Week of | Material Covered | Remarks |
| January 4 | Introduction to Programming Languages Chapter 1 - Preliminaries Reasons, Evaluation, Classifications Chapter 2 - Evolution of Programming Languages Classifications, History. |
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| January 9 | 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 |
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| January 16 | Chapter 5 - Names, Bindings, Type Checking and Scopes Names, Variables, Bindings Type Checking, Scope of Bindings, Environments |
Assignment #1 |
| January 23 | Chapter 6 - Data Types Specification and Implementation. Models. Primitive types Strings. Arrays, records, files, sets, and pointers |
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| January 30 | Chapter 16 - Logic Programming Languages Predicate Calculus; Horn Clauses Introduction to Prolog Environment and Syntax |
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| February 5 | Backtracking List and List Matching Complete Prolog. Midterm(Thursday) |
Assignment #2 |
| February 12 | Chapter 7 - Expressions and Assignment Arithmetic Expressions, Overloaded operators,Relational and Boolean operators. Chapter 8 - Statement-Level Control Structures Compound, Selection and Iterative Statements |
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| February 19 | Mid-semester break. No classes. | |
| February 26 | Chapter 15 - Functional Programming Language Overview; Lambda expressionsIntroduction to SchemeScheme/LISP: language features | Assignment #3 |
| March 5 | Chapter 12&11 - Object Oriented Programming | Assignment #4 |
| March 12 | Chapter 9 - Subprograms Student Presentations |
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| March 19 | Student Presentations Continued | |
| March 26 | Student Presentations Continued Chapter 13 - Concurrency |
Assignment #5 |
| April 3 | Review |