Introduction to Logic in Computing Science [pdf]

http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~hoover/cmput660/readings/cmput172.pdf

by motxilo • 15 years ago

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ses• 15 years ago

Logic is an understated and often overlooked area of Computer Science. I think notes like these are fantastic and it's great for all future programmers to learn something about logic itself. There is however a problem with students not having the foresight to see how it is applicable to their future career paths and being a CS student myself I can sympathise with this view. While puzzles and academic problems provide some good material to help explain logic, they do not provide much motivation to your average pragmatic young individual that wants to write software. We need more support for logic programming, and better integration with other software development platforms (one of the things I am working on). Logic programming is actually very applicable to many business problems and these in my view are the missing link in teaching of logic generally.

primodemus• 15 years ago

The text uses Mizar, a formal language based on Tarsky-Grothendiek set theory for expressing and checking its proofs: http://mizar.org/system/

djorgensen• 15 years ago

Oh interesting! I attended that University (somewhat briefly, as my lack of funds did not allow me to really finish my degree).

CMPUT172 must have been discontinued shortly after these notes as from 2003 onwards they only offer CMPUT272 - Formal Systems in Logic in Computing Science now.

Certainly a good course, it really provides some great insight about how computers understand and process logical problems. I still have the text and have used it from time to time to show and discuss with others interesting logic problems. The only thing that the course missed was applying the knowledge in a programming environment.

chromophore2• 15 years ago

Look at the notes similar to the one linked at the end of this website. http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~guttman/cs521_website/index.html

I think this is a very helpful page.

chromophore2• 15 years ago

to be precise - http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~guttman/cs521_website/Dougherty_lectu...

Introduction to Logic in Computing Science [pdf]

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