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''Visual Prolog for Tyros'' is a comprehensive book witten by ''Eduardo Costa''.<br />
{{ambox|text= This book is about an '''old''' version of Visual Prolog, but it may still be useful.}}
Two versions of the book are currently available:<br />
1. "Visual Prolog 7.1 for Tyros"<br />
2. "Visual Prolog 7.2 for Tyros" (a pre-release version)


Note that Visual Prolog 7.2 has been recently released, and ''Eduardo Costa'' is working on updating his book in accordance with changes implemented in Visual Prolog 7.2.
''Visual Prolog for Tyros'' is a comprehensive book written by ''Eduardo Costa''.


Since it takes time to rewrite the whole book, the author decided to pre-release an edition for Visual Prolog 7.2, which has the following modifications in comparison with "Visual Prolog 7.1 for Tyros":
It is a good starting point to study Visual Prolog. And it might be used by teachers for education.


1. Figures were updated to Visual Prolog 7.2.<br />
The latest edition of the book is "Visual Prolog 7.3 for Tyros".
2. The examples that deal with high-order functions (chapter 6) were updated, since Visual Prolog 7.2 has anonymous functions. A non-trivial example of how to use anonymous functions has been added.<br />
3. In chapter 23, the best first search program has been fixed.<br />


The book includes a number of examples illustrating different features of Visual Prolog.
=== Contents ===
'''I Savoir-faire'''
# Introduction
# Forms
# Mouse events
# Less Figures
# Horn Clauses
# Console Applications
# Grammars
# Painting
# Data types
# How to solve it in Prolog
# Facts
# Classes and Objects
# Giuseppe Peano
# L-Systems
# Games
# Animation
# Text Editor
# Printing
# Tab forms and other goodies
# Bugs
# A Data Base Manager
# Books and articles
'''II Artificial Intelligence'''
# Search
# Neural Networks
# Alpha Beta Pruning


=== Download ===
=== Download ===
*[http://download.pdc.dk/vip/72/books/tyros/tyros72.pdf Visual Prolog 7.2 for Tyros] - a pre-release version (English, PDF format).
*[http://download.pdc.dk/vip/72/books/tyros/tyros72.zip Examples to Visual Prolog 7.2 for Tyros] (zip format)
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*[http://download.pdc.dk/vip/71/Costas-Tyros.pdf Visual Prolog 7.1 for Tyros] (English, PDF format).
*[http://download.pdc.dk/vip/71/Costas-Tyros.zip Examples to Visual Prolog 7.1 for Tyros] (zip format)
<br />
*[http://download.pdc.dk/vip/71/Costas-Tyros_rus.pdf Visual Prolog for Tyros] (Russian, PDF format).


==References==
* [https://www.visual-prolog.com/download/73/books/tyros/tyros73.pdf Visual Prolog 7.3 for Tyros] (September, 2010, PDF).
 
=== Examples from the book ===
 
* For [https://www.visual-prolog.com/download/73/books/tyros/tyros73.zip Visual Prolog 7.3] (zip).
* For [https://www.visual-prolog.com/download/72/books/tyros/tyros72.zip Visual Prolog 7.2] (zip).
* For [https://www.visual-prolog.com/download/71/Costas-Tyros.zip Visual Prolog 7.1] (zip).
 
=== Translations ===
 
* [https://wikiru.visual-prolog.com/index.php?title=Visual_Prolog_for_Tyros Russian]
* [[Visual Prolog for Tyros in Chinese|Chinese]]
 
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Latest revision as of 13:23, 6 September 2019

Visual Prolog for Tyros is a comprehensive book written by Eduardo Costa.

It is a good starting point to study Visual Prolog. And it might be used by teachers for education.

The latest edition of the book is "Visual Prolog 7.3 for Tyros".

The book includes a number of examples illustrating different features of Visual Prolog.

Contents

I Savoir-faire

  1. Introduction
  2. Forms
  3. Mouse events
  4. Less Figures
  5. Horn Clauses
  6. Console Applications
  7. Grammars
  8. Painting
  9. Data types
  10. How to solve it in Prolog
  11. Facts
  12. Classes and Objects
  13. Giuseppe Peano
  14. L-Systems
  15. Games
  16. Animation
  17. Text Editor
  18. Printing
  19. Tab forms and other goodies
  20. Bugs
  21. A Data Base Manager
  22. Books and articles

II Artificial Intelligence

  1. Search
  2. Neural Networks
  3. Alpha Beta Pruning

Download

Examples from the book

Translations