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@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Other keywords:
        the Curry-Howard isomorphism(s)
        monads in category theory and computation
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 ## Who Can Participate? ##
 
 The course will not presume previous experience with programming.  We
@@ -90,12 +90,12 @@ 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; as a result, 
+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 
+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 welcome
@@ -135,8 +135,11 @@ familiar with one of them, it's not difficult to move between it and the
 other.
 
 [[How to get the programming languages running on your computer]]
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-## Recommended Readings ##
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+[[Using the programming languages]]
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+
+## Recommended Books ##
 
 *      *An Introduction to Lambda Calculi for Computer Scientists*, by Chris
 Hankin, currently $17 on
@@ -168,9 +171,15 @@ 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.
 
-
 ##[[Schedule of Topics]]##
 
+##[[Lecture Notes]]##
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+##[[Offsite Reading]]##
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+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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 All wikis are supposed to have a [[SandBox]], so this one does too.