X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=index.mdwn;h=2bc3cc86421fa0e9f789a63d5ed53616aca782d3;hp=79203f8b0656e22cd921c450b67c74d31a1d4644;hb=f09a077defb2e9030c3e8581c445443838415ae2;hpb=945835525c1a4f9d8210693af0b60ecf957ba8be diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn index 79203f8b..2bc3cc86 100644 --- a/index.mdwn +++ b/index.mdwn @@ -2,112 +2,23 @@ or: **What Philosophers and Linguists Can Learn From Theoretical Computer Science But Didn't Know To Ask** -This course is co-taught by [Chris Barker](http://homepages.nyu.edu/~cb125/) and [Jim Pryor](http://www.jimpryor.net/). Linguistics calls it "G61.3340-002" and Philosophy calls it "G83.2296-001." -The seminar meets on Mondays from 4-6, in +This course is co-taught by [Chris Barker](http://homepages.nyu.edu/~cb125/) and [Jim Pryor](http://www.jimpryor.net/). Linguistics calls it "G61.3340" and Philosophy calls it "G83.2296" +The seminar meets in spring 2015 on Thursdays from 4-7, in the Linguistics building at 10 Washington Place, in room 104 (back of the first floor). -One student session will be held every Wednesday from 3-4 on the -fourth floor at 10 Washington Place. - -## Announcements ## -* We've added a page on [[Translating between OCaml Scheme and Haskell]] - -* We've added some [commentary](/hints/assignment_6_commentary) on some common issues in your solutions to [[Assignment6]]. - -* We've added a [[Monad Library]] for OCaml. - -* We've posted a [[State Monad Tutorial]]. - -[[Older Announcements]] - -##[[Lambda Evaluator]]## - -Usable in your browser. It can help you check whether your answer to some of -the homework questions works correctly. - -There is also now a [library](/lambda_library) of lambda-calculus -arithmetical and list operations, some relatively advanced. - -##[[Monad Library]]## - - -## Lecture Notes and Assignments ## - -(13 Sept) Lecture notes for [[Week1]]; [[Assignment1]]. - -> 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]] - -(27 Sept) Lecture notes for [[Week3]]; [[Assignment3]]; -an evaluator with the definitions used for homework 3 -preloaded is available at [[assignment 3 evaluator]]. - -> Topics: [[Evaluation Order]]; Recursion with Fixed Point Combinators - -(4 Oct) Lecture notes for [[Week4]]; [[Assignment4]]. - -> Topics: More on Fixed Points; Sets; Aborting List Traversals; [[Implementing Trees]] - - -(18 Oct, 25 Oct) Lecture notes for [[Week5]] and [[Week6]]; [[Assignment5]]. - -> Topics: Types, Polymorphism, Unit and Bottom - -(1 Nov) Lecture notes for [[Week7]]; [[Assignment6]]. - -> Topics: Monads; [[Reader Monad for Variable Binding]]; [[Reader Monad for Intensionality]] - -(8 Nov) Lecture notes for [[Week8]]. - -> Topics: Reader Monad for Jacobson's Variable-Free Semantics -(15 Nov) Lecture notes for [[Week9]]; [[Assignment7]]. Everyone auditing in the class is encouraged to do this assignment, or at least work through the substantial "hints". - -> Topics: Mutable Variables; Passing by Reference; [[State Monad Tutorial]] (added recently) - -(22 Nov) Lecture notes for [[Week10]] - -> Topics: Calculator Improvements, including mutation - -(30 Nov) Lecture notes for [[Week11]]; [[Assignment8]]. - -> Topics: [[Tree and List Zippers]]; [[Coroutines and Aborts]]; [[From List Zippers to Continuations]] - -(6 Dec) Lecture notes for [[Week12]]; [[Assignment9]]. - -> Topics: [[List Monad as Continuation Monad]]; [[Manipulating Trees with Monads]] (updated); [[Monad Transformers]] (added recently) - -(13 Dec) Lecture notes for Week13; Assignment10. - -> Topics: [[CPS and Continuation Operators]]; Curry-Howard - -[[Advanced Topics]] - -> Topics: Version 4 lists, Monads in Category Theory - -##Scheme and OCaml## - -See [below](#installing) for how to get the programming languages running on your computer. - -* Links for help [[learning Scheme]] - -* Links for help [[learning OCaml]] - -* [[Translating between OCaml Scheme and Haskell]] - - -##[[Offsite Reading]]## +## Announcements ## -There's lots of links here already to tutorials and encyclopedia entries about many of the notions we'll be dealing with. +This wiki will be undergoing lots of changes throughout the semester, and particularly in these first few days as we get it set up, migrate over some of the content from the previous time +we taught this course, and iron out various technical wrinkles. Please be patient. +If you've eager to learn, though, you don't have to wait on us to be ready to serve you. You can go look at the [archived first version](http://lambda1.jimpryor.net) of this course. Just keep in mind that +the text and links there haven't been updated. ## Course Overview ## @@ -117,6 +28,7 @@ theoretical computer science and show how they can provide insight into established philosophical and linguistic problems. This is not a seminar about any particular technology or software. + Rather, it's about a variety of conceptual/logical ideas that have been developed in computer science and that linguists and philosophers ought to know, or may already be unknowingly trying to reinvent. @@ -147,11 +59,14 @@ especially in the fields of functional programming and type theory. Of necessity, this course will lay a lot of logical groundwork. But throughout we'll be aiming to mix that groundwork with real cases -in our home subjects where these tools play central roles. Our aim for the +in our home subjects where these tools play central roles. + +Our aim for the 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. + Faculty and students from outside of NYU Linguistics and Philosophy are welcome to audit, to the extent that this coheres well with the needs of our local @@ -237,6 +152,7 @@ other. But these languages also have a lot in common, and if you're familiar with one of them, it's not difficult to move between it and the other. + ## Recommended Books ## @@ -282,7 +204,6 @@ superficial syntactic differences between these languages. [Here's a translation manual between them](http://www.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/sml-vs-ocaml.html). - ---- All wikis are supposed to have a [[SandBox]], so this one does too.