In this series of lectures presented at the CIMPA Winter School on Discrete
Integrable Systems in Pondicherry, India, in February, 2003 we give a review of
the application of Lie point symmetries, and their generalizations to the study
of difference equations. The overall theme of these lectures could be called
"continuous symmetries of discrete equations".Comment: 58 pages, 5 figures, Lectures presented at the Winter School on
Discrete Integrable Systems in Pondicherry, India, February 200