Expert Systems for Personal Computers: An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

This book gives a thorough and easy-to-understand introduction to Rule-Based Expert Systems. It is aimed at readers who have already gained some experience in BASIC and/or LOGO programming, and who would like to put some 'intelligence' to their computing. The book contains a variety of different applications as examples from identifying garden birds and car maintenance to astronomy. They lead you step-by-step from defining the problem to designing the program and then to improvements which can be made. All programs are presented both in BASIC and LOGO, and thoroughly documented.