0 a college or university course that introduces students to a subject and prepares them for studying it at a higher level --
It is ideal for informal self-study or as an accompaniment to a formal undergraduate introductory course in phonetics and phonology, used in conjunction with a textbook or other materials.
In short, this book comes up to my expectations of an introductory course text in the most important respects - it is interesting and instructive, for students as well as teachers.
Most importantly, the book liberated the introductory course from the tyranny of syntax.
It seems unlikely that many programs offer an introductory course on tone.
That book gave me deeper insights into computer languages than either my long ago introductory course in computer science or the primary text itself.
It is therefore obvious to investigate whether an introductory course in computer programming can be given in a functional programming language.
The book contains discussions of all of the seismological topics necessary for a comprehensive introductory course.
Students either volunteered or participated in partial fulfilment of an introductory course requirement.