Resumen de Micro‐PROLOG for Educational Ends
Like sex and religion, computing is morally neutral: it can be used for good or for ill. In educational terms, using a computer as an end in itself would count as ill, whereas using it to help inculcate general intellectual skills would count as good. Such skills include pattern perception (whether patterns of lines, patterns of numbers, patterns of language, patterns of events, or whatever), mimicry, extrapolation, reapplication, and generalization. The computer language micro‐PROLOG lends itself to good uses of the computer in education. At Marlborough College we have used it in a number of ways, as discussed in this paper, and will be happy to make the program material available to anyone interested.
