The seminar meets in spring 2015 on Thursdays from 4 until a bit before 7 (with a short break in the middle), in
the Linguistics building at 10 Washington Place, in room 103 (front of the first floor).
-One student session to discuss homeworks will be held every Wednesday from 5-6, location yet to be fixed.
+One student session to discuss homeworks will be held every Wednesday from 5-6, in Linguistics room 104 (back of the first floor).
-## [[Index of Content (lecture notes and more)|content]] ##
+## [[Index of Main Content|content]] (lecture notes and more) ##
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+## [[Offsite Readings|readings]] ##
## Announcements ##
* As we mentioned in class, we're also going to schedule a session to discuss the weekly homeworks. If you'd like to participate in this, please complete [this Doodle poll](http://doodle.com/7xrf4w8xq4i9e5za). It asks when you are available on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
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-* The student session has been scheduled for Wednesdays from 5-6, location yet to be fixed.
+* The student session has been scheduled for Wednesdays from 5-6, in Linguistics room 104 (back of the first floor).
Those of you interested in additional Q&A but who can't make that time, let us know.
[[Homework|exercises/assignment1]];
[[Advanced notes|topics/week1 advanced notes]]
+(**Intermezzo**)
+> The [[differences between our made-up language and Scheme, OCaml, and Haskell|rosetta2]];
+Help on [[learning Scheme]], [[OCaml|learning OCaml]], and [[Haskell|learning Haskell]];
+[[What do words like "interpreter" and "compiler" mean?|ecosystem]]
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[[More about the topics and larger themes of the course|overview]]
[Lisp](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_%28programming_language%29),
[Scheme](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_%28programming_language%29),
[Racket](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_%28programming_language%29), and
-[Chicken](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHICKEN_%28Scheme_implementation%29).)
- <!-- Help on Learning Scheme -->
+[Chicken](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHICKEN_%28Scheme_implementation%29).)
+ (Help on [[Learning Scheme]])
* **Caml** is one of two major dialects of *ML*, which is another large
family of programming languages. Caml has only one active "implementation",
(Wikipedia on
[ML](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_%28programming_language%29),
[Caml](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caml), and
-[OCaml](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCaml).)
- <!-- Help on Learning OCaml -->
+[OCaml](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCaml).)
+ (Help on [[Learning OCaml]])
* **Haskell** is also used a
(Wikipedia on
[Haskell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_%28programming_language%29) and
-[GHC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Haskell_Compiler).)
- <!-- Help on Learning Haskell -->
+[GHC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Haskell_Compiler).)
+ (Help on [[Learning Haskell]])
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