I need to do a project for class in Prolog but they gave us no guidance at all in the language it self. I was reading http://kti.mff.cuni.cz/~bartak/prolog/contents.html but I am not understanding anything of what I am reading.
Any better sources out there you can share?
Bratko's "Prolog Programming for AI" is excellent, clear, lively, accessible. Sterling and Shapiro's "The Art of Prolog" is very good too, very thorough with the basic/foundational stuff.
Bratko was the one were it "clicked" for me. I took this slogan from him (don't remember if he wrote it or if I distilled it from his book somehow) - in Prolog, to understand the question is to have your answer. Writing down the question properly gives you a runnable program, more or less. I remember reading a page on AVL trees where he wrote down the definition, and I turned the page expecting to see the "solution". But it was already about something else. Turning the page back I realized, that the statement of what AVL trees were, was already the program itself.
Many moons ago, I liked the book Programming in Prolog by William F. Clocksin & Christopher S. Mellish. It also helps to work through exercises and see how the language works. You can work through some problems from this site Werner Hett's P-99: Ninety-Nine Prolog Problems and here SWI Prolog is a good implementation to use.
I like Adventures in Prolog, but learning a logic language on your own can be very hard. You really can learn much faster and more correctly with a mentor or taking a college course.
