Prolog
Prolog is a declarative, logic-based programming language in which programs are expressed as facts and rules, and computation proceeds by the language's engine searching for answers that satisfy logical queries.
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Arithmetic in Prolog
Learn how Prolog evaluates arithmetic expressions with is/2, the difference between unification and arithmetic comparison, and common numeric predicates.
Debugging Prolog Programs
Master Prolog's built-in tracer, spy points, and common failure patterns to systematically debug logic programs.
Facts and Rules in Prolog
How Prolog knowledge bases are built from facts and rules, including how conjunctions (AND) and multiple clauses (OR) combine to express logic.
Higher-Order Predicates in Prolog
How Prolog treats goals as ordinary data, enabling call/N, maplist, foldl, include, exclude, and partition to parameterize control flow.
Installing SWI-Prolog
A practical walkthrough of installing SWI-Prolog on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and verifying the installation from the interactive top-level.
Lists in Prolog
Learn how Prolog represents lists as recursive [Head|Tail] structures and how unification lets you construct, deconstruct, and pattern-match them.
Modules in Prolog
Learn how Prolog's module system namespaces predicates, controls visibility, and enables code reuse across larger logic programs.
Prolog and AI Search Algorithms
See how classic AI search strategies, depth-first, breadth-first, and best-first, map onto Prolog's own backtracking engine and how to implement them explicitl…
Prolog and Natural Language Processing
Explore how Prolog's Definite Clause Grammars and unification make it a powerful tool for parsing and generating natural language.
Prolog Best Practices
Practical guidelines for writing correct, efficient, and maintainable Prolog code — from clause ordering to cut discipline and pitfalls to avoid.
Prolog for Expert Systems
Learn how Prolog's rule-based inference engine maps naturally onto expert system architecture, from knowledge bases to forward and backward chaining.
Prolog Interview Questions
The concepts, coding prompts, and common mistakes that come up when Prolog and logic programming are assessed in technical interviews or coursework.
Prolog Quick Reference
A condensed reference for Prolog syntax, essential built-in predicates, operators, and list notation for quick lookup while coding.
Prolog Syntax and Terms
A tour of Prolog's core data representation: atoms, numbers, variables, compound terms, and the [Head|Tail] list notation.
Prolog vs Imperative Languages
A comparison of Prolog's declarative, logic-based approach with the imperative, step-by-step style of languages like Python, Java, and C.
Queries and the Prolog Interpreter
An introduction to how Prolog queries work: typing goals at the ?- prompt, reading bound variables and backtracking with ;, and understanding how the interpret…
Recursive Predicates
Understand how Prolog predicates call themselves to process structures like lists and numbers, and how base cases and recursive cases work together.
Unification in Prolog
How Prolog's core matching mechanism works: when two terms unify, how atoms, numbers, variables, and compound terms are compared, and why the occurs check matt…
What Is Prolog?
An introduction to Prolog as a declarative, logic-based programming language built on facts, rules, and queries resolved through unification and backtracking.
Your First Prolog Program
A hands-on walkthrough of writing a family.pl file, loading it into SWI-Prolog, and querying it interactively with backtracking.