PRINCIPLES OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES:
			       SYLLABUS

	   Gary T. Leavens, Department of Computer Science,
	   Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-1040 USA
			leavens@cs.iastate.edu
		     $Date: 1999/04/29 18:17:27 $

This syllabus tells when we plan to discuss the various topics.
The ``when'' is specified below by class meeting numbers (a count of
the ``lectures,'' which are 75 minutes each).
The readings are from ``Essentials of Programming Languages''
by Daniel P. Friedman, Mitchell Wand, and Christopher T. Haynes
(MIT Press and McGraw-Hill, 1992).

The following will be changed as needed.

                                        Essential
Meetings Topic                          Readings        Other Readings
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 1       Introduction                   (Handouts)      Foreword, Preface
 2-4     Tools for Symbolic Programming 1               The Little LISPer 1,7
 5-9     Induction, Recursion, Scope    2               The Little LISPer 2-6
10-11,13  Syntactic Abstraction          3.1-3.3
12       Test                           1, 2.2
14-16    Data Abstraction               3.4-3.7
16-19    Imperatives                    4.5-4.6         4.1-4.3, 4.7
18       Test                           2.3, 3.1-3.5
20-25    Interpreters                   5.1-7
26-27... Parameter Passing              6.1-3           6.4-6
28       Test                           3.6, 4.5-4.6, 5.1-5
...29    Parameter Passing              6.1-3           6.4-6
30       Course Summary and Evaluation

The following table relates the meeting numbers to the calendar.
Please don't plan to miss the meetings before and after the break.

Meeting Date               Comment
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1       January 12, 1999
        January 15, 1999   free drop deadline
7       February 2, 1999
15      March 2, 1999
16      March 4, 1999      midterm grades decided
18      March 11, 1999     last meeting before Spring break
19      March 23, 1999     first meeting after Spring break
        March 26, 1999     drop deadline
22      April 1, 1999
30      April 29, 1999     last meeting before exams
        May 4, 1999        final exam, 12:00 noon to 2 PM