Good beginners material on Prolog

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Solution 1

This book is well-written, should be easy to read for beginners. It's available in printed form and also as a free online version. It is also relatively new (from 2003), which is not the case with many Prolog books out there.

Solution 2

Adventure in Prolog Dennis Merritt | Springer Published in 1990, 186 pages
An Introduction to Logic Programming through Prolog Michael Spivey | Prentice Hall Published in 2008, 258 pages
Applications of Prolog Attila Csenki | BookBoon Published in 2009, 203 pages
Artificial Intelligence through Prolog Neil C. Rowe | Prentice-Hall Published in 1988, 481 pages
Building Expert Systems in Prolog Dennis Merritt | Amzi! inc. Published in 2000, 358 pages
Learn Prolog Now! Patrick Blackburn, Johan Bos, Kristina Striegnitz | College Publications Published in 2006, 284 pages
Logic, Programming and Prolog Ulf Nilsson, Jan Mauszynski | John Wiley & Sons Inc Published in 1995, 296 pages
Natural Language Processing in Prolog Gerald Gazdar, Chris Mellish | Addison-Wesley Published in 1989, 519 pages
Prolog and Natural-Language Analysis Fernando C. N. Pereira, Stuart M. Shieber | Center for the Study of Language and Inf Published in 2002, 204 pages
Prolog Experiments in Discrete Mathematics, Logic, and Computability James Hein | Portland State University Published in 2009, 158 pages
Prolog Programming: A First Course Paul Brna | Published in 1999
Prolog Techniques Attila Csenki | BookBoon Published in 2009, 186 pages
The First 10 Prolog Programming Contests Bart Demoen, Phuong-Lan Nguyen, Tom Schrijvers, Remko Troncon | Published in 2005, 161 pages

Solution 3

Once upon a time when I used Prolog I liked the book by Sterling & Shapiro, The Art of Prolog.

For advanced Prolog programming, especially w.r.t. efficiency, I recommend the Craft of Prolog by O'Keefe.

Solution 4

Here's one book you may find useful: Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence by Ivan Bratko.

The first part is about Prolog, the second about AI algorithms and how to implement them in Prolog.

Solution 5

Writing an Adventure Game in Prolog could also be a good way to learn.

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Admin about 2 years

I am looking for good beginners material on Prolog, both online and printed. I am not only interested in 'learning the language' but also in background and scientific information.
stian over 15 years

I second this suggestion. Very good and well-written introduction suitable for beginners.
ThomasH almost 15 years

Very good book indeed. In its advanced chapters it's slanted towards natural language processing, which covers one important application area (the others being knowledge representation and reasoning).
ThomasH almost 15 years

This one, OTOH, goes much more into the representation and reasoning realm.
ThomasH almost 15 years

Sterling & Shapiro is another classic, in the vein of Bratko. O'Keefe is hard to get, to say the least (very unfortunately, as I must say). You might be lucky in your local library.
ThomasH almost 15 years

This is a very nice one, especially since freely available, but I wouldn't recommend it for starters. But it is a very good second read, if you are interested in the representation/reasoning aspect of Prolog.
Nate over 14 years

Here's a link from Amazon: amazon.com/Programming-Prolog-Using-ISO-Standard/dp/35400067‌88/…
JUST MY correct OPINION over 14 years

+1 for a source that involves doing instead of just reading.
JUST MY correct OPINION over 14 years

+1 for a source that involves doing instead of just reading.
Igbanam about 11 years

sweet Jesus! Posts like this is why I like StackOverflow