| Week # (+section meeting milestone) | Monday | Wednesday | Friday |
| 1 | Oct 1: Welcome and introduction. Programming language paradigms. UWOnCue | Oct 3:LISP history, interaction with Lisp | Oct 5:Lisp: more basic interaction, functions, symbols, evaluation |
| 2 (Assignment 1 due) | Oct 8:List structure, recursive functions on lists | Oct 10:Scope and Extent, LET, LET*, packages and interning | Oct 12:Macros and embedded languages |
| 3 (Assignment 2 due) | Oct 15:Explicit application and evaluation | Oct 17:Closures and functional programming | Oct 19:Full-strength applications in Lisp |
| 4 (Assignment 3 due) | Oct 22:Lazy evaluation, continuations, streams | Oct 24:Syntax, BNF, EBNF, types, type inference, polymorphism | Oct 26:Introduction to ML |
| 5 (Quiz 1) | Oct 29:More on ML -- pattern matching, functional programming | Oct 31:ML's type system | Nov 2:UWOnCue -- "WORKING IN GROUPS" + description of the project (a group-work assignment) |
| 6 (Assignment 4 due) | Nov 5:JAVA: introduction | Nov 7:Classes, interfaces and inheritance in Java | Nov 9:Java AWT, 1.1 event model, adapters |
| 7 (Project plans due) | Nov 12: Veterans' Day (NO CLASS) | Nov 14:Java threads + brief review | Nov 16:PROLOG: example programs |
| 8 (Assignment 5 due on Nov 21.) | Nov 19:Horn clauses and unification | Nov 21:List manipulation in Prolog | Nov 23: Thanksgiving Day holiday (NO CLASS). |
| 9 (Assignment 6 due; Quiz 2) | Nov 26:PERL: introduction, examples of text processing, scalars | Nov 28:Arrays, slices, list/scalar contexts, references | Nov 30:Topic TBA |
| 10 (Group projects due) | Dec 3:Regular expressions | Dec 5:Visual Languages | Dec 7:Review for final examination |
| 11 (Assignment 7 due Dec. 12 in class) | Dec 10: Project peer evaluations | Dec 12: Ethical issues in computing and their relation to programming languages Last day of class | Dec 14: FINAL EXAMINATION 2:30-4:20 |