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@@ -7,13 +7,17 @@ This course will be co-taught by [Chris Barker](http://homepages.nyu.edu/~cb125/
 
 ## Announcements ##
 
-The seminar meets on Mondays, starting September 13, from 4-6.
-The first meeting will be in the Linguistics building at 10 Washington Place on the first floor (room 104).
-(Earlier, we were going to meet in the 2nd floor Philosophy Seminar Room, at 5
-Washington Place, but there were conflicts.)  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 from 4-6, in 
+the Linguistics building at 10 Washington Place, in room 104 (back of the first floor).
 
+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 ##
@@ -118,7 +122,7 @@ and Caml, which are prominent *functional programming languages*. We'll explain
 what that means during the course.
 
 *      **Scheme** is one of two major dialects of *Lisp*, which is a large family
-of programming languages. The other dialect is called "CommonLisp." Scheme
+of programming languages. Scheme
 is the more clean and minimalistic dialect, and is what's mostly used in
 academic circles.
 Scheme itself has umpteen different "implementations", which share most of
@@ -128,9 +132,10 @@ PLT Scheme, and has just in the past few weeks changed their name to Racket.
 This is what we recommend you use. (If you're already using or comfortable with
 another Scheme implementation, though, there's no compelling reason to switch.)
 
+       Racket stands to Scheme in something like the relation Firefox stands to HTML.
+
 *      **Caml** is one of two major dialects of *ML*, which is another large
-family of programming languages. The other dialect is called "SML" and has
-several implementations. But Caml has only one active implementation,
+family of programming languages. Caml has only one active implementation,
 OCaml, developed by the INRIA academic group in France.
 
 *      Those of you with some programming background may have encountered a third