X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=index.mdwn;h=9fb78ff6e31ae0def06ff77a47aef0617c7dde54;hp=10aa5037a4aff8168a0f60625a2d6033b31f7a91;hb=20ea9594a36c0fbc43dc860c37d84c06f2b787c3;hpb=5c1224c91213e70c1cb666046e6b44afadc0a876;ds=sidebyside diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn index 10aa5037..9fb78ff6 100644 --- a/index.mdwn +++ b/index.mdwn @@ -15,12 +15,25 @@ We've sent around an email to those who left their email addresses on the roster All students are invited to help us schedule, and then participate in, a regular student session in addition to the Monday seminar meetings. If you didn't receive our email about this, go to as soon as you can and please tell us when you're available. +Lots of lecture notes summarizing and expanding on last Monday's seminar now posted. (Click "Notes and Schedule".) + ## Assignments ## [[Assignment1]] -## Overview ## +##[[Notes and Schedule]]## + +[[Using the programming languages]] + + +##[[Offsite Reading]]## + +There's lots of links here already to tutorials and encyclopedia entries about many of the notions we'll be dealing with. + + + +## Course Overview ## The goal of this seminar is to introduce concepts and techniques from theoretical computer science and show how they can provide insight @@ -149,10 +162,9 @@ other. [[How to get the programming languages running on your computer]] -[[Using the programming languages]] - [[Family tree of functional programming languages]] + ## Recommended Books ## It's not necessary to purchase these for the class. But they are good ways to get a more thorough and solid understanding of some of the more basic conceptual tools we'll be using. @@ -184,17 +196,10 @@ on [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/Seasoned-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/02625610 * *The Little MLer*, by Matthias Felleisen and Daniel P. Friedman, currently $27 on [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/Little-MLer-Matthias-Felleisen/dp/026256114X). This covers some of the same introductory ground as The Little Schemer, but -this time in ML. The dialect of ML used is SML, not OCaml, but there are only +this time in ML. It uses another dialect of ML (called SML), instead of OCaml, but there are only superficial syntactic differences between these languages. [Here's a translation manual between them](http://www.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/sml-vs-ocaml.html). -##[[Schedule of Topics]]## - -##[[Lecture Notes]]## - -##[[Offsite Reading]]## - -There's lots of links here already to tutorials and encyclopedia entries about many of the notions we'll be dealing with. ----