Date	CS 242 reader	Discussion Topic
February 3	Ch. 1, 2
February 10	Ch. 3, 4
February 24	Ch. 5, 6
March 2	Ch. 7, 8
March 9	Ch. 9, 10
March 16	Ch. 11, 12
March 23	Ch. 13
March 30		94 Qual
April 13		93 Qual
April 20		92b Qual
April 27		92 Qual
May 4
May 11
May 18

Old Quals
1992
1992b
1993
1994

From the official systems qual syllabus:

Knowledge of fundamental concepts which are found in programming languages [8] as covered by CS 242 and its prerequisites, including (with supplementary references):

• language features: arrays, dynamic allocation, recursion, naming and binding, block structure, procedures, macros, etc. [8]
• basic implementation techniques: heaps, activation records, garbage collection methods
• applicative languages: LISP, Scheme [1], ML
• logic programming
• data structuring and abstraction: Smalltalk [3], Pascal [6], Simula [2], CLU [7], Ada [5], C++ [3']
• basic design tradeoffs in programming languages [4]
• interpreters [1]

1. Abelson and Sussman. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. McGraw-Hill, 1984.

2. O.J. Dahl and C.A.R. Hoare. Hierarchical program structures. In Structured Programming, O.J. Dahl, E.W. Dijkstra, and C.A.R. Hoare, Ed., Academic Press, 1972, pp. 175-220.

3'. M. Ellis and B. Stroustrup, The Annotated C++ Reference Manual, Addison-Wesley, 1990.

3. A. Goldberg and D. Robson. SmallTalk-80: the language and its implementation. Addison-Wesley, 1983.

4. C.A.R. Hoare. Hints on Programming Language Design. Memo AIM 224, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1975.

5. J.D. Ichbiah, et al. "Preliminary Ada reference manual". SIGPLAN Notices 14, 6 (June 1979), Part A.

6. K. Jensen and N. Wirth. Pascal User Manual and Report. Springer-Verlag, 1974.

7. B.H. Liskov, A. Synder, R. Atkinson, and C. Schaffert. "Abstraction mechanisms in CLU". Comm. ACM 20, 8 (August 1977), 564-576.

8. R. Sethi. Programming Languages. Addison-Wesley, 1989.