CISC 260: Programming Paradigms Resources Winter 2007

• Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming, second edition, by Simon Thompson, ISBN 0-201-34275-8
• Prolog: Programming for Artificial Intelligence, third edition, by Ivan Bratko, ISBN 0201-40375-7

There are other Haskell interpreters and compilers available, but please don't use them for CISC 260. The Haskell language and libraries are not completely standardized and if we all use the same tool we will avoid huge amounts of confusion. Marking of assignments, quizzes and exams will assume you're writing Haskell for use in Hugs.

• The Hugs home page contains links to documentation about the Hugs tool.
• The Haskell home page contains a huge list of Haskell-related links.
• A Gentle Introduction To Haskell is a nice tutorial. Please consider this a supplement to the required text, not a possible replacement. It covers Haskell in a very different way and in a different order.
• The web site for Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming (the Haskell portion of the custom textbook) contains some interesting Haskell-related information, an errata page, and all of the Haskell code from the book for downloading.

There are other Prolog interpreters and compilers available, but please don't use them for CISC 260. Prolog versions and tools vary even more than Haskell. As with Haskell, marking of assignments, quizzes and exams will assume you're writing Prolog for use with SWI-Prolog.

• The SWI-Prolog Reference Manual. If you click on the icon that looks like a card file, it takes you to the table of contents. Chapter 2 is an overview, including a "Getting Started Quickly" section. (The "likes.pl" file referred to there is in the "demo" folder inside your installation folder.) Appendix A describes all the built-in predicates. Section A.1 is particularly useful, since the built-in list manipulation predicates are a bit different from those described in the text. Section 4.1 explains the notation used in this appendix and elsewhere in the manual.
• The SWI-PROLOG home page contains documentation for the tool as well as other Prolog-related links
• The companion website for the Bratko textbook (the second half of the custom text) contains most of the examples from the textbook ready for download
• Prolog Programming: a do-it-yourself course for beginners from Saarland University in Germany.
• Prolog Tutorial another tutorial, this one from California State Polytechnic University.

If you'd like a copy of the simple Haskell and Prolog languages I've created, search your computer for a file called userDefineLang.xml; on my computer it's located in c:\Documents and Settings\Margaret\Application Data\Notepad++. Make a copy of this file now so that if anything goes wrong, or you don't like my language modes, you can put things back the way they were. Now download a copy of my version of userDefineLang.xml into the same folder to replace the old version. Next time you open up notepad++, look at the language menu and you should see haskell and prolog at the very bottom; you may have to scroll down. When you open a file with extension .hs, it will automatically open in haskell mode. Unfortunately, the extension .pl is reserved for Perl and I haven't figured out how to hack Notepad++ to get rid of that association. But you can use the language menu to enter prolog mode.

Warning: the process above will destroy any languages you may already have defined. If you want to merge my languages in with yours, you'll have to cut and paste from my xml file into your own.