  An edited version is given of the text of G\"odel's unpublished manuscript of
the notes for a course in basic logic he delivered at the University of Notre
Dame in 1939. G\"odel's notes deal with what is today considered as important
logical problems par excellence, completeness, decidability, independence of
axioms, and with natural deduction too, which was all still a novelty at the
time the course was delivered. Full of regards towards beginners, the notes are
not excessively formalistic. G\"odel presumably intended them just for himself,
and they are full of abbreviations. This together with some other matters (like
two versions of the same topic, and guessing the right order of the pages)
required additional effort to obtain a readable edited version. Because of the
quality of the material provided by G\"odel, including also important
philosophical points, this effort should however be worthwhile. The edited
version of the text is accompanied by another version, called the source
version, which is quite close to G\"odel's manuscript. It is meant to be a
record of the editorial interventions involved in producing the edited version
(in particular, how the abbreviations were disabridged), and a justification of
that later version.
