0 a college or university course that introduces students to a subject and prepares them for studying it at a higher level
Faculty colleagues (inside and outside of computer science) often have an emotional preference for a specific language in the introductory course.
These features make his book particularly suitable as a textbook for an introductory course.
In the end, we have to justify the use of a functional language in an introductory course to both our students and colleagues.
An introductory course on syntax is all about the nature of syntactic representations - providing a framework through which we interpret the facts at our disposal.
This information, taken together, amounts to an introductory course in descriptive linguistics.
Finally, an introductory course might well include at least part of the final chapter, on computational complexity.
Thirty-four undergraduate students also participated as volunteers or in partial fulfilment of an introductory course requirement.
Students either volunteered or participated in partial fulfilment of an introductory course requirement.
