X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=index.mdwn;h=05f46089f134ace1446e4b349ed28123d3499cb2;hp=c581a3ee038c85a92585cdcb7ccc28f3953a403f;hb=c76f095bf23e033fce5cd143cf5b0c3b9b2bd859;hpb=fa3c0b4b86fea54a5a66f046d99e303218d5beba diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn index c581a3ee..05f46089 100644 --- a/index.mdwn +++ b/index.mdwn @@ -10,8 +10,7 @@ the Linguistics building at 10 Washington Place, in room 103 (front of the first One student session will be held every Wednesday from XX-YY at WHERE. --> -## [[Jump to content (lecture notes and more)|topics_and_themes.mdwn]] ## - +## [[Index of Content (lecture notes and more)|content]] ## ## Announcements ## @@ -40,13 +39,6 @@ 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]]. - - > Topics: Basics of Functional Programming - * Henceforth, unless we say otherwise, every homework will be "due" by Wednesday morning after the Thursday seminar in which we refer to it. (Usually we'll post the assignment shortly before the seminar, but don't @@ -79,6 +71,25 @@ 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. + + +(**Week 1**) Thursday 29 Jan 2015 + +> 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]] + + + + + ## Course Overview ## The overarching goal of this seminar is to introduce concepts and techniques from @@ -123,7 +134,7 @@ 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 +190,6 @@ 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 @@ -192,11 +202,20 @@ 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 stands to Scheme in something like the relation Firefox stands to HTML. + Another good Scheme implementation is Chicken. For our purposes, this is in some +respects superior to Racket, and in other respects inferior. + + Racket and Chicken stand to Scheme in something like the relation Firefox stands to HTML. - (Wikipedia on [Lisp](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_%28programming_language%29), + (Wikipedia on +[Lisp](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_%28programming_language%29), [Scheme](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_%28programming_language%29), -and [Racket](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_%28programming_language%29).) +[Racket](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_%28programming_language%29), and +[Chicken](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHICKEN_%28Scheme_implementation%29).) * **Caml** is one of two major dialects of *ML*, which is another large family of programming languages. Caml has only one active "implementation", @@ -204,9 +223,10 @@ OCaml, developed by the INRIA academic group in France. Sometimes we may refer t more generally; but you can assume that what we're talking about always works more specifically in OCaml. - (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).) + (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).) * Those of you with some programming background may have encountered a third @@ -218,11 +238,17 @@ other. But these languages also have *a lot* in common, and if you're familiar with one of them, it's generally not hard to move between it and the other. - (Wikipedia on [Haskell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_%28programming_language%29).) + Like Scheme, Haskell has a couple of different implementations. The +dominant one, and the one we recommend you install, is called GHC, short +for "Glasgow Haskell Compiler". + + (Wikipedia on +[Haskell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_%28programming_language%29) and +[GHC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Haskell_Compiler).) -[[How to get the programming languages running on your computer]] +[[How to get the programming languages running on your computer|installing]] ## Recommended Books ##