Computer Science 262
COMPARATIVE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
September 2010

Tentative Schedule

Week of Material Covered Remarks
September 6 Introduction to Programming Languages
Chapter 1 - Preliminaries
Reasons, Evaluation, Classifications
September 13 Chapter 2 - Evolution of Major Programming Languages
Classifications, History.Chapter 3 - Describing Syntax and Semantics
Compilers Grammars; Chomsky Hierarchy
Context-Free Grammars, BNF
September 20 Chapter 4 - Lexical and Syntax Analysis
Syntax diagrams, Recursive Descent Parsing
Attribute Grammars, Semantics
Chapter 5 - Names, Bindings, Type Checking and Scopes
Names, Variables, Bindings
Type Checking, Scope of Bindings, Environments
Assignment #1
September 27 Chapter 6 - Data Types
Specification and Implementation.
Models.
Primitive types Strings.
Arrays, records, files, sets, and pointers
October 4 Chapter 16 - Logic Programming Languages
Predicate Calculus; Horn Clauses
Introduction to Prolog
Environment and Syntax
October 11 Backtracking
List and List Matching
Complete Prolog.
Midterm(Thursday)
Assignment #2
October 18 Chapter 7 - Expressions and Assignment
Arithmetic Expressions, Overloaded operators,Relational and Boolean operators.
Chapter 8 - Statement-Level Control Structures
Compound, Selection and Iterative Statements
October 25 Chapter 15 - Functional Programming Language Overview; Lambda expressionsIntroduction to SchemeScheme/LISP: language features Assignment #3
November 1 Chapter 12&11 - Object Oriented Programming Assignment #4
November 8 Chapter 9 - Subprograms and
Chapter 10 - Implementing Subprograms
Student Presentations
November 15 Student Presentations Continued
November 22 Student Presentations Continued
Chapter 13 - Concurrency
Assignment #5
November 29 Review

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