From dc94d6df9cb7f1a5b3a28770895f4f5f66716b1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Pryor Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:12:40 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] remark about partial understanding Signed-off-by: Jim Pryor --- offsite_reading.mdwn | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/offsite_reading.mdwn b/offsite_reading.mdwn index 4f2a73e9..019edd2e 100644 --- a/offsite_reading.mdwn +++ b/offsite_reading.mdwn @@ -4,6 +4,17 @@ hope at this point in your education you'll have learned to be a guarded reader even of authoritative treatises by eminent authors. So you shouldn't need any Wikipedia-specific warnings. +For most readers, many bits of reading we point you to will be hairy in one way +or another. It may be aimed at audiences with more programming experience; it +may be aimed at audiences with specific logical background you don't yet have; +it may be aimed at audiences familiar with technical areas in linguistics you're +first encountering. Or perhaps several of these at once. We hope you will +already have mastered the skill of leveraged reading: getting what you can out +of an article you don't fully understand, so that you can discuss it with the rest of +the group and hopefully get to a point where you can read it again and +get more out of out. (Rinse and repeat.) + + ## General issues about variables and binding in programming languages ## * [[!wikipedia Variable (programming)]] -- 2.11.0