PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES 1:
			       SYLLABUS

           Gary T. Leavens, Department of Computer Science,
           Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-1040 USA
                        leavens@cs.iastate.edu
                     $Date: 1998/12/08 18:04:10 $

This syllabus tells when we plan to discuss the various topics.
It was developed in negotiation with the students in the class,
although we took 3 meetings longer than planned on functional languages,
and consequently 3 less on logic languages.
The ``when'' is specified below by class meeting numbers (a count of
the ``lectures,'' which are 75 minutes each).
The readings from ``Discovering Smalltalk''
by Wilf LaLonde (Benjamin-Cummings, 1994) are marked ``DS''.
The readings from ``Design Patterns'' by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm,
Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides (Addison-Wesley, 1995) are marked ``DP''.
The readings from ``Haskell The Craft of Functional Programming''
by Simon Thompson (Addison Wesley, 1996) are marked ``H''.

The following will be changed as experience dictates.

                                        Essential
Meetings    Topic                       Readings        Other Readings
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1,5         Introduction, Survey, Goals handouts        (see reserve list)
2,5,6-9     OO and Smalltalk            DS2-3,5,6-7,9	DS1,4,8 DP1-2
                                        handouts	(other reserve books)
10-16	    Java  	                Gosling et al
16-17	    Components and Java Beans   Gosling et al
20          test on OO languages
18-26       Functional, Haskell, Types  H1-2,4,6-10,	H3,5,11-12,15
					H13-14		(other reserve books)
27-29       Logic and Lambda Prolog     handouts        Miller & other reserve
30          Course Summary & Evaluation
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The following table relates the meeting numbers to the calendar.

Meeting Date               Comment
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1       August 25, 1998
2       August 28, 1998    free drop deadline
3       September 1, 1998
5       September 8, 1998  (first meeting after Labor Day)
12      October 1, 1998
16      October 15, 1998   midterm grades decided
        October 30, 1998   drop deadline
21      November 3, 1998
26      November 19, 1998  last meeting before Thanksgiving break
27      December 1, 1998   first meeting after Thanksgiving break
30      December 10, 1998  last meeting before exams
        December 18, 1998  final exam, 9:45am to 11:45am