One student session will be held every Wednesday from XX-YY at WHERE.
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week's homework, for instance, before the session.
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-* Here is information about [[How to get the programming languages running on your computer]].
+* Here is information about [[How to get the programming languages running on your computer|installing]].
* Here are lecture notes for week 1: [[order|topics/week1 order]];
[[the introduction to functional programming|topics/week1]], along
understanding of them to recognize them in use, use them yourself at least
in simple ways, and to be able to read more about them when appropriate.
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## Who Can Participate? ##
of the extent to which they emphasize, and are designed around those idioms. Languages like Python and JavaScript are sometimes themselves
described as "more functional" than other languages, like C.
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In any case, here is some more context for the three languages we will be focusing on.
* **Scheme** is one of two or three major dialects of *Lisp*, which is a large family
and that is what we recommend you use. If you're already using or comfortable with
another Scheme implementation, though, there's no compelling reason to switch.
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Racket stands to Scheme in something like the relation Firefox stands to HTML.
(Wikipedia on [Lisp](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_%28programming_language%29),