Learning PROLOG

Based on the book PROLOG Programming by Nigel Ford, published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester. ISBN 0 471 92141 6. These Web pages were constructed by Aidan Dixon. This site is maintained by the Department of Information Studies at the University of Sheffield. The material herein is copyright ?1989 by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. and may not be reproduced for commercial gain.

Introduction

This section tells you about the book that this course is based upon, and why it was written.

Programming in Logic
Learning PROLOG
Lessons from Learning Research
This course

First Gear

This section is meant for the newcomer - it explains the basics of PROLOG.
This section deals with:

These pages were submitted as part of a dissertation for an MA Librarianship but their future is uncertain. They may be modified for use as a campus-wide learning tool, or they may be withdrawn and made commercially available in a more complete form, including more complex PROLOG techniques, that will take the user from Second through to Top Gear. You can click here to see what such a course would cover.

If you have any thoughts about the usefulness of this resource, either in its current form or as one of the proposed extended versions, I would be very pleased to hear from you as this is what my dissertation is about. You can email me at a.l.dixon1@sheffield.ac.uk. Do you feel that this is an appropriate use of the World Wide Web, or is it merely a glorified advert? Let me know what you think. Thank you.