FTP Poplog teach file
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/teach/README
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/teachpop/AREADTHIS.txt

Aaron Sloman 4 July 1995
Updated: 31 May 2009

The files in this directory are for use in connection with the
programming language Pop-11, which is the core of the Poplog system, and
the Poplog editor, Ved (or its multi-window version XVed).

The files have been used to introduce both AI programming techniques and
more general programming, including a wide range of programming
constructs, list processing, use of pattern matching, object-oriented
programming (with multiple inheritance and generic functions) and more.

This teaching was begun in the later 1970s at sussex university, using
an early version of Pop-11 running under Unix on a DEC PDP11/40 computer
with shared between several simultaneous users, initially using paper
teletypes, then later video displays. It was continued at the University
of Birmingham after I moved there in 1991, for teaching introductory AI
programming courses for AI students and Cognitive Science students at
the University of Birmingham.

For this purpose we use the Poplog development environment, originally
produced by Sussex University then marketed world wide for a while by
Integral Solutions Limited (ISL), until they were taken over by SPSS.

Since then Poplog has become a free and open source multi-language
toolkit for teaching and research in AI, and related fields. For more
details see
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/poplog.info.html
        Information about Poplog, Pop-11 and the other languages.

    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/freepoplog.html
        What is in the available packages and where to find them.

Many of the teach files included here are versions of
Poplog teach files, originally produced at Sussex university, then
modified at Birmingham (where the Pattern matcher was extended to use
lexically scoped pattern variables in connection with the use of "!" as
pattern prefix.

The Pop-11 code associated with these files, and versions of these files
though without the '.txt' suffix is included in the Poplog system, e.g.
in the subdirectory
    $usepop/pop/packages/teaching/

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/copyright.html


Aaron Sloman, ( http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs )
4th July 1995
Updated: 31 May 2009
School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, England
EMAIL   A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk
Phone: +44-121-414-4775       Fax:   +44-121-414-4281