Start from the schedule, which gives the topic of each lecture, the associated pages in the reading, and a description of any associated class handouts. The schedule page also has hyperlinks to on-line lecture notes for each topic. These lecture notes in turn contain links to other useful web sites. For any other questions about the course structure, please email the instructors.
You can get information about computing resources at Penn from several sources. Your first resource should be your "local support provider." If you don't know who that is, you can find out from the Computing Resource Center, 3732 Locust Walk, or by calling First Call at 573-4778. Another source of information is the computing page of the university's web site. Of special interest may be the table of campus computing labs.
Start with the textbooks and the on-line lecture notes. If you want to go into something in more depth, go to the library, or try the internet. Here are a few interesting links to get you started.
Lexicon
of Linguistics
The sci.lang FAQ
The LINGUIST list web site
Ethnologue, 13th
edition, 1996
The comp.speech FAQ
A page of speech research links
UPenn
Linguistics Department Home Page
The International
Phonetic Alphabet
All the Scripts in the
World
ASLLRP
The Association for
Computational Linguistics
A web of on-line
grammars
Stirling
University's online phonology course
Each time you access it, the main Ling 001 web page randomly selects one or a dozen or so other linguistic sites to feature. Click on the picture to access the selected site.
Of course, you can also often find useful things (along with plenty of trash) by searching the internet with one of the commercial search engines.