X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=index.mdwn;h=9c77b738ade2e39b73f9f133f59f97469fb9efce;hp=c581a3ee038c85a92585cdcb7ccc28f3953a403f;hb=d4a578483d2e2aafe1db9b6149b503eba8ca159e;hpb=fa3c0b4b86fea54a5a66f046d99e303218d5beba diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn index c581a3ee..9c77b738 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]] ## - +## [[Jump to content (lecture notes and more)|content]] ## ## Announcements ## @@ -123,7 +122,7 @@ 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 +178,6 @@ 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 +190,8 @@ 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 stands to Scheme in something like the relation Firefox stands to HTML. (Wikipedia on [Lisp](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_%28programming_language%29),