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@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ This course will be co-taught by [Chris Barker](http://homepages.nyu.edu/~cb125/
 *      The seminar meets on Mondays from 4-6, in 
 the Linguistics building at 10 Washington Place, in room 104 (back of the first floor).
 
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+
 *      One student session will be held every Wednesday from 3-4. The other will
 be arranged to fit the schedule of those who'd like to attend but can't
 make the Wednesday time. (We first proposed Tuesdays from 11-12, but this
@@ -23,11 +25,14 @@ week's homework, for instance, before the session.
 
 *      There is now a [[lambda evaluator]] you can use in your browser (no need to
 install any software). It can help you check whether your answer to some of the
-homework questions works correctly.
+homework questions works correctly.  
 
        There is also now a [library](/lambda_library) of lambda-calculus
 arithmetical and list operations, some relatively advanced.
 
+       An evaluator with the definitions used for homework 3
+preloaded is available at [[assignment 3 evaluator]]. 
+
 *      Henceforth, unless we say otherwise, every homework will be "due" by
 Sunday morning after the Monday seminar in which we refer to it.
 (Usually we'll post the assignment shortly before the seminar, but don't
@@ -54,7 +59,7 @@ it, and get assistance completing it if you need it, sooner.
 
 *      We'll shortly be posting another assignment, assignment 4, which will be
 "due" on the Sunday before our next seminar. That is, on Sunday Oct 17.
-(There's no seminar this coming Monday.)
+(There's no seminar on Monday Oct 11.)
 
        The assignments will tend to be quite challenging. Again, you should by
 all means talk amongst yourselves, and to us, about strategies and
@@ -67,6 +72,7 @@ very much worthwhile (and very much appreciated) if you would explain
 what is difficult, what you tried, why what you tried didn't work, and
 what you think you need in order to solve the problem.
 
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   To play around with a **typed lambda calculus**, which we'll look at later
@@ -81,23 +87,31 @@ what you think you need in order to solve the problem.
 
 (13 Sept) Lecture notes for [[Week1]]; [[Assignment1]].
 
-Topics: Applications; Basics of Lambda Calculus; Comparing Different Languages
+>      Topics: [[Applications]], including [[Damn]]; Basics of Lambda Calculus; Comparing Different Languages
 
 (20 Sept) Lecture notes for [[Week2]]; [[Assignment2]].
 
-Topics: Reduction and Convertibility; Combinators; Evaluation Strategies and Normalization; Decidability; Lists and Numbers
+>      Topics: Reduction and Convertibility; Combinators; Evaluation Strategies and Normalization; Decidability; [[Lists and Numbers]]
 
-(27 Sept) Lecture notes for [[Week3]];  [[Assignment3]].
+(27 Sept) Lecture notes for [[Week3]];  [[Assignment3]];
+an evaluator with the definitions used for homework 3
+preloaded is available at [[assignment 3 evaluator]]. 
 
-Topics: Recursion with Fixed Point Combinators
+>      Topics: [[Evaluation Order]]; Recursion with Fixed Point Combinators
 
-(4 Oct) Lecture notes for Week 4
+(4 Oct) Lecture notes for [[Week4]]; [[Assignment4]].
+
+>      Topics: More on Fixed Points; Sets; Aborting List Traversals; [[Implementing Trees]] 
 
-<!-- Introducing the notion of a "continuation", which technique we'll now already have used a few times
--->
+
+(18 Oct) Lecture notes for Week 5
+
+>      Topics: Types, Polymorphism
 
 [[Upcoming topics]]
 
+[Advanced Lambda Calculus Topics](/advanced lambda)
+
 
 ##[[Offsite Reading]]##
 
@@ -280,5 +294,4 @@ All wikis are supposed to have a [[SandBox]], so this one does too.
 
 This wiki is powered by [[ikiwiki]].
 
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