| Week of | Material Covered | Remarks |
| January 3 | No classes | |
| January 7 | Introduction and Preliminaries Chapter 1 - Preliminaries Reasons, Evaluation, Classifications Chapter 2 - Evolution of Major Programming Languages Classifications, History.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 14 | Introduction to C Chapter 5 - Names, Bindings, Type Checking and Scopes Names, Variables, Bindings Type Checking, Scope of Bindings, Environments |
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| January 21 | Chapter 6 - Data Types Specification and Implementation. Models. Primitive typesStrings. Arrays, records, files, sets, and pointers |
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| January 28 | 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 4 | Complete Prolog. Class test #1 |
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| February 11 | Chapter 15 - Functional Programming Languages Overview; Lambda expressions Introduction to Scheme Scheme/LISP: language features |
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| February 18 | Islander Day and Mid-semester break. No classes |
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| February 25 | Class Test #2 | |
| March 4 | Chapter 7 - Expressions and Assignment Arithmetic Expressions, Overloaded operators, Relational and Boolean operators. Chapter 8 - Statement-Level Control Structures Compound, Selection and Iterative Statements Student Presentations |
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| March 11 | Student Presentations |
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| March 18 | Student Presentations |
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| March 25 | Student Presentations |
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| April 3 | Student Presentations |