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A graphical representation of the prolog programmer's knowledge

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Visualization in Human-Computer Interaction (IPsy 1988)

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This paper is concerned with the ability to provide the user of Prolog with a visual understanding of the language and its use. A graphical display is used to do this, based on the original ‘box’ model. The ideas presented here were initially derived from existing designs of Prolog database representations, but they are then linked in a real-time teaching and debugging environment. An introduction of the design and function of the tool is given, along with some examples of how the system appears to the user.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Studies, Loughborough University of Technology, LE11 3TU, Loughborough, United Kingdom

    J. Polak (Visiting research fellow) & S. P. Guest

  2. the Department of Computers, Czech University of Technology, Karlovo n. 13, Prague, Czechoslovakia

    J. Polak (Visiting research fellow)

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  1. J. Polak
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Peter Gorny Michael J. Tauber

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Polak, J., Guest, S.P. (1990). A graphical representation of the prolog programmer's knowledge. In: Gorny, P., Tauber, M.J. (eds) Visualization in Human-Computer Interaction. IPsy 1988. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 439. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-52698-6_6

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