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@@ -90,15 +90,15 @@ languages, and we will encourage experimentation with running,
 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.
 
@@ -144,7 +144,11 @@ Hankin, currently $17 on
 
 *      (Another good book covering the same ground as the Hankin book, but
 more thoroughly, and in a more mathematical style, is *Lambda-Calculus and Combinators:
-an Introduction*, by J. Roger Hindley and Jonathan P. Seldin.)
+an Introduction*, by J. Roger Hindley and Jonathan P. Seldin. If you choose to read
+both the Hankin book and this book, you'll notice the authors made some different
+terminological/notational choices. At first, this makes comprehension slightly slower,
+but in the long run it's helpful because it makes the arbitrariness of those choices more salient.)
+
 
 *   *The Little Schemer, Fourth Edition*, by Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias
 Felleisen, currently $23 on [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262560992).
@@ -164,9 +168,20 @@ This covers some of the same introductory ground as The Little Schemer, but
 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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