One student session will be held every Wednesday from XX-YY at WHERE.
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+## [[Jump to content (lecture notes and more)|topics/content.mdwn]] ##
## Announcements ##
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 [[Week1]]; [[Assignment1]]. (*Lecture notes will be posted soon.*)
+* Here are lecture notes for week 1: [[order|topics/week1 order]];
+[[the introduction to functional programming|topics/week1]], along
+with [[the homework|exercises/assignment1]] and some [[advanced
+notes|topics/week1 advanced notes]].
> Topics: Basics of Functional Programming
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.
-[[topics and themes|More about the topics and larger themes of the course]]
+[[More about the topics and larger themes of the course| topics and themes]]
## 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.
+ <!-- Racket doesn't have R7RS-small, and won't anytime soon. :-( Perhaps prefer Chicken? -->
+
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),