Syntax I

In preparation for the overview class on Tuesday, I’ve put together a short essay synthesizing things we’ve looked at over the semester. It’s linked to the syllabus page, or you can click here to get it.

I think it will be helpful to read over it at some point. My plan is to use it as a kind of guiding script on Tuesday, although we may skip over bits or get into more detail on other things. Actually, the most helpful way this could probably work is for you to read this before coming to class, and then help make sure I get to parts of it that didn’t make sense to you, or ask about parts that may not have made it into the document. There are many things we did over the semester that aren’t discussed there in any detail.

I’ve posted two practice finals, which work the same way as the practice midterms did. One of the practice finals was actually last year’s final, the other is the practice final I gave out last year. The keys are also there, although of course this will be much more useful to you if you first try to work out the problems without the key, and then check to see how you did.

These are not for turning in, but they’re there for the purpose of giving you an idea of what to expect, and for inspiring questions that you might want to try to deal with next week.