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Cool, good to see others are finding this useful. > In my experience, learning Prolog properly requires dedicated guidance, and it would be highly unusual to a

Cool, good to see others are finding this useful. > In my experience, learning Prolog properly requires dedicated guidance, and it would be highly unusual to achieve mastery without it. There are two readings of this sentence. An unkind spirit might think you are saying that Prolog books cannot make you a master for some inherent reason related to Prolog, independent of any book. Whereas I would say that there is no inherent reason, it's just that currently existing Prolog books cannot make you a master because they are simply not very good. Or in other words, yes, guidance may be needed. But can it really not be guidance from a book?

triska 8y ago
In my experience, a dedicated instructor, an automated teleteaching environment (GUPU), and a lot of textual notes (either as a separate book, or integrated in the teleteaching environment, or both) is the most effective combination to teach Prolog, and removing one of the three either creates frustration for students or fails to impose the necessary direction. In addition, for social and other reasons, you cannot write down in a book everything that advanced Prolog students should know. As a consequence, some things are better said than written, and I therefore think that a book alone is unlikely to be sufficient.