| Week of | Material Covered | Remarks |
| January 3 | Introduction and Preliminaries Chapter 1 - Preliminaries Reasons, Evaluation, Classifications Chapter 2 - Evolution of Major Programming Languages Classifications, History. |
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| January 8 | 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 16 | Chapter 5 - Names, Bindings, Type Checking and Scopes Names, Variables, Bindings Type Checking, Scope of Bindings, Environments |
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| January 22 | Chapter 6 - Data Types Specification and Implementation. Models. Primitive typesStrings. Arrays, records, files, sets, and pointers |
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| January 29 | Chapter 16 - Logic Programming Languages Predicate Calculus; Horn Clauses Introduction to Prolog Environment and SyntaxBacktracking List and List Matching |
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| February 5 | Complete Prolog. Chapter 15 - Functional Programming Languages Overview; Lambda expressions Introduction to Scheme Scheme/LISP: language features |
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| February 12 | Midterm(Wednesday ? ) |
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| February 19 | Islander Day and Mid-semester break. No classes |
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| February 26 | 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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| March 12 | Student Presentations |
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| March 19 | Student Presentations |
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| March 26 | Student Presentations |
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