CS-F214

Logic In Computer Science

This directory includes my assignments and practice for Logic In Computer Science Course offered at BITS-Pilani (2017-18). I don't claim copyright of the problem statements and practice code provided in this Repository. Also the contents of this directory are not availible under any open source license.
The solutions were a combined effort of Divesh Uttamchandani and Rahul Khapre. If you want to use the assignment code in this repository, please write to diveshuttamchandani@gmail.com

Resources

Prolog

The resources used for learning prolog for the assignment include:

1. IIT-KGP Nptel Course on AI - lectures 13 to 15 [VIDEO]
2. Derek Banas - Learn Prolog in one Video. [VIDEO]

Logic

1. Stanford Intro to Logic [TEXT]

Important Notes

Prolog

• One of the key points about prolog is that it is a declarative programming language, and control flow of the program is pre-specified. If we draw the flowchart for a prolog program we will get an And-Or tree.
  i.e
  1. there is a OR between all the predicates listed.
  2. there is an AND between the statements written within a predicate (MOSTLY).
  3. there is a THERE EXISTS within a single predicate. i.e it returns true even if it finds a single correct match of all statements within a predicate
  4. there is a FOR EVERY between the overall predicates i.e all predicates are tested even after a matching predicate is found.
  5. we can convert THERE EXISTS to FOR EVERY for a single predicates by using 2 NOT's. For details refer to the comments in the code. (Though this is easy to code but makes the predicate only good for checking and not good for producing results - seems related to P vs NP. Another way to achieve FOR EVERY is to use recurrsion)
  6. there is an OR between various solution that prolog proposes.

Logic

• Logic in CS is a meta level course, we are doing proofs about proofs. Keeping this in mind makes the learning process quite easier.