X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=index.mdwn;h=c10667bb38642d4e4b8bce652670f58ace258c16;hp=4f1281e550eb8801bcafdfaeed6f083b1c690cc4;hb=7e0ff6635f98a9139894d40e79e01e05e53abb87;hpb=0cfda2cea6982b662387b6b0aa48eb4f3921d2cc diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn index 4f1281e5..c10667bb 100644 --- a/index.mdwn +++ b/index.mdwn @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Other keywords: the Curry-Howard isomorphism(s) monads in category theory and computation --> - + ## Who Can Participate? ## The course will not presume previous experience with programming. We @@ -90,12 +90,12 @@ languages, and we will encourage experimentation with running, modifying, and writing computer programs. The course will not presume lots of mathematical or logical background, either. -However, it will demand a certain amount of comfort working with such material; as a result, +However, it will demand a certain amount of comfort working with such material; as a result, it will not be especially well-suited to be a first graduate-level course in formal semantics or philosophy of language. If you have concerns about your background, come discuss them with us. -It hasn't yet been decided whether this course counts for satisfying the logic requirement for +It hasn't yet been decided whether this course counts for satisfying the logic requirement for Philosophy PhD students. Faculty and students from outside of NYU Linguistics and Philosophy are welcome @@ -135,8 +135,12 @@ familiar with one of them, it's not difficult to move between it and the other. [[How to get the programming languages running on your computer]] - -## Recommended Readings ## + +[[Using the programming languages]] + +[[Family tree of functional programming languages]] + +## Recommended Books ## * *An Introduction to Lambda Calculi for Computer Scientists*, by Chris Hankin, currently $17 on @@ -168,11 +172,6 @@ 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 superficial syntactic differences between these languages. -# Other resources # - -* [Barker's Lambda Tutorial](http://homepages.nyu.edu/~cb125/Lambda): tutorial with embedded Javascript code that enables a user to type a lambda form into a web browser page and click to execute (reduce) it. -* [Penn Lambda Calculator](http://www.ling.upenn.edu/lambda/): requires installing Java, but provides a number of tools for evaluating lambda expressions and other linguistic forms. - ##[[Schedule of Topics]]## ##[[Lecture Notes]]##