## Announcements ##
-The seminar meets on Mondays, starting September 13, from 4-6 in the 2nd floor Philosophy Seminar Room, at 5
-Washington Place. We may be able to shift the time around slightly to suit the
-schedule of participants; but it will remain on Mondays late
-afternoon/evenings.
+The seminar meets on Mondays, starting September 13, from 4-6.
+We'll be meeting in the Linguistics building at 10 Washington Place on the first floor (room 104).
+We've sent around an email to those who left their email addresses on the roster we passed around. But it's clear that the roster didn't make its way to everyone. So if you didn't receive our email this evening, please email <mailto:jim.pryor@nyu.edu> with your email address, and if you're a student, say whether you expect to audit or take the class for credit.
+
+All students are invited to help us schedule, and then participate in, a regular student session in addition to the Monday seminar meetings. If you didn't receive our email about this, go to
+<http://www.doodle.com/e8eci7cr9ib8t7t3> as soon as you can and please tell us when you're available.
+
+## Assignments ##
+
+[[Assignment1]]
## Overview ##
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
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
-Philosophy PhD students.
+This class will count as satisfying the logic requirement for Philosophy
+PhD students; however if this would be your first or only serious
+engagement with graduate-level formal work you should consider
+carefully, and must discuss with us, (1) whether you'll be adequately
+prepared for this course, and (2) whether you'd be better served by
+taking a logic course (at a neighboring department, or at NYU next year)
+with a more canonical syllabus.
+
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
other.
[[How to get the programming languages running on your computer]]
-
-## Recommended Readings ##
+
+[[Using the programming languages]]
+
+[[Family tree of functional programming languages]]
+
+## Recommended Books ##
* *An Introduction to Lambda Calculi for Computer Scientists*, by Chris
Hankin, currently $17 on
on [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/Little-MLer-Matthias-Felleisen/dp/026256114X).
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.
+superficial syntactic differences between these languages. [Here's a translation
+manual between them](http://www.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/sml-vs-ocaml.html).
+
+##[[Schedule of Topics]]##
-# Other resources #
+##[[Lecture Notes]]##
-* [Barker's Lambda Tutorial](http://tinyurl.com/cbarker/lambda.html): 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.
+##[[Offsite Reading]]##
+
+There's lots of links here already to tutorials and encyclopedia entries about many of the notions we'll be dealing with.
-##[[Schedule of Topics]]##
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