IS 2300
Human Information Processing
Fall 2008
Douglas Metzler


GUIDE TO CLIPS Basic Programming Guide

This is an outline of what you should read in Volume I of the CLIPS Manual (The Basic Programmer's Guide). You should start with the parts up to and including 5.4.5 (about 50 pages). All together this table indicates about 100 pages that will be usefull to you at this point, rather than the 290 pages + Appendices of the whole Guide. The other two parts of the guide are not necessary for you for this course.

Section	Subsection	Suggestion
Section 1 Introduction		read
Section 2 Overview		read all but section 2.6
Section 3 Deftemplate		read
Section 4 Deffacts		read
Section 5 Defrule		read to 5.4.5
	5.4.6 on	of possible interest, not critical
Section 6 Defglobal		possible interest, not necessary (global variables)
Section 7 Deffunctions		skip unless interested in how to define functions to call from CLIPS
Section 8 Generic Functions		skip unless interested in Object Programming
Section 9 COOL		skip unless interested in Object Programming
Section 10 Defmodule		skip unless interest in building large systems
Section 11 Constraint Attributes		can be useful but not necessary
Section 12 Actions and Functions		can be useful, scan then read if/when needed
	12.2	read (though not immediately)
	12.3	read (though not immediately)
	12.4	read but not all of it is necessary
	12.5.1	read
	12.5.2	won't need
	12.6.1	read
	12.6.2-9	skip
	12.7-12.12	look over index just to know what is here in case you need it
	12.13-12.18	skip
Section 13 Commands
	13.1.1-3	read
	13.1.4-5	skip
	13.1.6-9	read
	13.1.10-19	skip
	13.2	read later
	13.3	read
	13.4.1-3	read
	13.4.4-6	skip
	13.5	read
	13.6.1-4	read
	13.6.5-12	skip
	13.7.1-2	read
	13.7.3-4	skip
	13.7.5-6	important but read later
	13.7.7-11	skip
	13.8-13	skip
	13.14	read later
	13.15	might be useful
	13.6	skip