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+# Learning prolog
+
+If you are new to prolog the following resources helped me a lot in the
+beginning and they still do:
+
+* [The Power of Prolog](https://www.metalevel.at/prolog) by Markus Triska is a great book about prolog and logic programming and is very up to date.
+It even contains videos for some of its topics which can help a bit. The text is easy to read and
+the chapters are short so it doesn't become overwhelming.
+* [The Art of Prolog](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-prolog) an older book by Leon S. Sterling and Ehud Y. Shapiro which goes much more into
+the details and foundations of logic programming, but since it is older
+it should not be your only learning source. This book is my recommendation for people who are not afraid to read a bit since it is very
+interesting.
+
+Please be aware that some of the things taught in the books aren't supported by pprolog yet, such as constraint logic programming which is used a lot in Triskas book for doing integer arithmetic.
+
+# PProlog tutorial
+
+There exists a mini series to get you up and running with
+the pprolog system:
+
+* [Installing](/documentation/tutorial/1.-install) covers the steps needed to install pprolog on you very own 9front machine.
+* [Prolog primer](/documentation/tutorial/2.-prolog-primer) gives a short introduction to prolog.
+* [Using the repl](/documentation/tutorial/3.-repl) explains how to ask queries to the system at the repl.
+* [Writing and consulting code](/documentation/tutorial/4.-writing-and-consulting). While asking queries using only the standard library and the builtins is fun, it becomes even more fun when you can write your own fact and rules and load them.
+
+# Information about the standard library and the builtins
+
+At the moment [the source](https://git.sr.ht/~pmikkelsen/pprolog) is the documentation. \ No newline at end of file