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 One student session will be held every Wednesday from XX-YY at WHERE.
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-## [[Jump to content (lecture notes and more)|topics_and_themes.mdwn]] ##
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+## [[Jump to content (lecture notes and more)|content]] ##
 
 ## Announcements ##
 
@@ -40,12 +39,13 @@ week's homework, for instance, before the session.
 
 *   Here is information about [[How to get the programming languages running on your computer|installing]].
 
-* Here are lecture notes for week 1: [[order|topics/week1 order]];
-[[the introduction to functional programming|topics/week1]], along
-with [[the homework|exercises/assignment1]] and some [[advanced
-notes|topics/week1 advanced notes]].
+(Week 1) Thursday 29 Jan 2015
 
-    > Topics: Basics of Functional Programming
+> Topics:
+[[Order in programming languages and natural language|topics/week1 order]]
+[[Introduction to functional programming|topics/week1]]
+[[Homework|exercises/assignment1]]
+[[Advanced notes|topics/week1 advanced notes]]
 
 *   Henceforth, unless we say otherwise, every homework will be "due" by
 Wednesday morning after the Thursday seminar in which we refer to it.
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ course is to enable you to make these tools your own; to have enough
 understanding of them to recognize them in use, use them yourself at least
 in simple ways, and to be able to read more about them when appropriate.
 
-[[More about the topics and larger themes of the course| topics and themes]]
+[[More about the topics and larger themes of the course| overview]]
 
 
 ## Who Can Participate? ##
@@ -179,7 +179,6 @@ strictly exclusive. The labels are better thought of as concerning different
 of the extent to which they emphasize, and are designed around those idioms. Languages like Python and JavaScript are sometimes themselves
 described as "more functional" than other languages, like C.
 
-
 In any case, here is some more context for the three languages we will be focusing on.
 
 *   **Scheme** is one of two or three major dialects of *Lisp*, which is a large family
@@ -192,6 +191,8 @@ the operating system differently. One major implementation is called Racket,
 and that 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 doesn't have R7RS-small, and won't anytime soon. :-( Perhaps prefer Chicken? -->
+
     Racket stands to Scheme in something like the relation Firefox stands to HTML.
 
     (Wikipedia on [Lisp](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_%28programming_language%29),
@@ -222,7 +223,7 @@ other.
 
 
 <a name=installing></a>
-[[How to get the programming languages running on your computer]]
+[[How to get the programming languages running on your computer|installing]]
 
 
 ## Recommended Books ##