Computer Science 2620
COMPARATIVE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
January 2020

Tentative Schedule

Week of Material Covered Remarks
January 6 Introduction and Preliminaries
Chapter 1 - Preliminaries
Reasons, Evaluation, Classifications
Chapter 2 - Evolution of Major Programming Languages
Classifications, History.
January 13 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
January 20 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
January 27 Chapter 16 - Logic Programming Languages
Predicate Calculus; Horn Clauses
Introduction to Prolog
Environment and Syntax
Backtracking
List and List Matching
February 3 Complete Prolog.
February 10 Chapter 15 - Functional Programming Languages
Overview; Lambda expressions
Introduction to Scheme
Scheme/LISP: language features

Midterm

February 17 Islander Day and Mid-semester break. No classes
February 24 Chapter 7 - Expressions and Assignment
Arithmetic Expressions, Overloaded operators,
Relational and Boolean operators.

March 2 Chapter 8 - Statement-Level Control Structures
Compound, Selection and Iterative StatementsChapter 12&11 - Object Oriented Programming
Chapter 9 - Subprograms and
Chapter 10 - Implementing Subprograms
March 9
Student Presentations

March 16 Student Presentations


March 23 Student Presentations
March 30 Student Presentations

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