modifying, and writing computer programs.
The course will not presume lots of mathematical or logical background, either.
-However, it will demand a certain amount of comfort working with such material.
-And it wouldn't be especially well-suited to be a first graduate-level course
+However, it will demand a certain amount of comfort working with such material; as a result,
+it will not be especially well-suited to be a first graduate-level course
in formal semantics or philosophy of language. If you have concerns about your
background, come discuss them with us.
It hasn't yet been decided whether this course counts for satisfying the logic requirement for
Philosophy PhD students.
-Faculty and students from outside of NYU Linguistics and Philosophy are wlecome
+Faculty and students from outside of NYU Linguistics and Philosophy are welcome
to audit, to the extent that this coheres well with the needs of our local
students.
this time in ML. The dialect of ML used is SML, not OCaml, but there are only
superficial syntactic differences between these languages.
+# Other resources #
+
+* [Barker's Lambda Tutorial](http://homepages.nyu.edu/~cb125/Lambda): tutorial with embedded Javascript code that enables a user to type a lambda form into a web browser page and click to execute (reduce) it.
+* [Penn Lambda Calculator](http://www.ling.upenn.edu/lambda/): requires installing Java, but provides a number of tools for evaluating lambda expressions and other linguistic forms.
##[[Schedule of Topics]]##
+##[[Lecture Notes]]##
+
+##[[Offsite Reading]]##
+
+There's lots of links here already to tutorials and encyclopedia entries about many of the notions we'll be dealing with.
+
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