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Using SWISH to Realize Interactive Web-based Tutorials for Logic-based Languages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2019

JAN WIELEMAKER Open the ORCID record for JAN WIELEMAKER [Opens in a new window] ,
FABRIZIO RIGUZZI Open the ORCID record for FABRIZIO RIGUZZI [Opens in a new window] ,
ROBERT A. KOWALSKI ,
TORBJÖRN LAGER ,
FARIBA SADRI  and
MIGUEL CALEJO
JAN WIELEMAKER
Affiliation:
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, Netherlands (e-mail: J.Wielemaker@cwi.nl)
FABRIZIO RIGUZZI
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Ferrara (e-mail: fabrizio.riguzzi@unife.it)
ROBERT A. KOWALSKI
Affiliation:
Imperial College, London, UK (e-mail: r.kowalski@imperial.ac.uk)
TORBJÖRN LAGER
Affiliation:
University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden (e-mail: lager@ling.gu.se)
FARIBA SADRI
Affiliation:
Imperial College, London, UK (e-mail: fs@doc.ic.ac.uk)
MIGUEL CALEJO
Affiliation:
Logical Contracts, Lisbon, Portugal (e-mail: mc@logicalcontracts.com)
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Abstract

Programming environments have evolved from purely text based to using graphical user interfaces, and now we see a move toward web-based interfaces, such as Jupyter. Web-based interfaces allow for the creation of interactive documents that consist of text and programs, as well as their output. The output can be rendered using web technology as, for example, text, tables, charts, or graphs. This approach is particularly suitable for capturing data analysis workflows and creating interactive educational material. This article describes SWISH, a web front-end for Prolog that consists of a web server implemented in SWI-Prolog and a client web application written in JavaScript. SWISH provides a web server where multiple users can manipulate and run the same material, and it can be adapted to support Prolog extensions. In this article we describe the architecture of SWISH, and describe two case studies of extensions of Prolog, namely Probabilistic Logic Programming and Logic Production System, which have used SWISH to provide tutorial sites.

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Prologlogic programming systemnotebook interfaceweb
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Original Article
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Theory and Practice of Logic Programming , Volume 19 , Special Issue 2: User-Oriented Logic Programming and Reasoning Paradigms , March 2019 , pp. 229 - 261
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2019 

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Footnotes

This research was partially supported by the VRE4EIC project, a project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement no. 676247. The SWISH implementation of LPS was developed under an EPSRC grant administered by Imperial College London. We thank the referees for their helpful comments.

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