Course Syllabus: CS 214: Programming Language Concepts at Calvin University


CS 214--Programming Language Concepts--is organized by week, with each week structured as follows:

A tentative syllabus for the semester is as follows...

Week Readings
(Chapters)
Topics Lab Project
Part I
1 1, 2 Course Introduction
[Video Lecture 1.1]
1 1
2 3, 4 BNFs and Context Free Grammars
[Video Lecture 2.1] [Video Lecture 2.2]
2 2
3 8.1, 8.2, 8.3–8.6 Control Structures
[Video Lecture 3.1] [Video Lecture 3.2]
3 3
4 5–7 Types & Expressions
[Video Lecture 4.1] [Video Lecture 4.2]
4 4
5   Test 1 5 5
Part II
6 9 Subprograms & Parameter Passing
[Video Lecture 6.1] [Video Lecture 6.2]
6 6
7 10 Identifier Scope
[Video Lecture 7.1] [Go over Test 1]
7 7
8 11.1–11.4 Types, Part II
[Video Lecture 8.1] [Video Lecture 8.2]
8 8
9 11.5–11.7 Encapsulation & Modularity
[Video Lecture 9.1] [Video Lecture 9.2]
9 9
10 12.1–12.6 OOP, Inheritance & Polymorphism
[Video Lecture 10.1] [Video Lecture 10.2]
10 10
11 13 Concurrency, Shared Memory
[Video Lecture 11.1] [Video Lecture 11.2]
11 11
12 13 Concurrency, Distributed Memory
[Video Lecture 12.1] [Video Lecture 12.2]
12 12
(Extra Credit)
13   Formal Languages
[Video Lecture 13.1]
Study for the Final Exam!

Both Test 1 and the Final Exam are accessible via the CS 214 Master Course in Moodle.


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