Learning Prolog, need help!

Ok guys, I'm essentially doing an AI programming class and its centered around prolog. Now I have programmed in over a dozen different languages and had very little trouble picking them up but prolog is a major logic headfuck. I knew this was going to be hard and be a different programming language compared to the other more traditional mediums but my bonehead of a professor (genius as he is) is fucking hopeless when it comes to explaining to lay, non-math oriented folks like me how it really works, I flunked math in HS, and don't have the patience to fuck around learning all these new fang-dangled math terms that he decided to throw in to make things easier to understand for all the cs/math freaks.

tldr; any info in the anon-cloud on how to explain prolog so a lay person could understand and start programming with it? tutes, pretty pictures even a reasonable explanation is fine by me.

Prolog is a set of if/then statements.

Read SICP, section 4.4.

if you're not smart enough to be good at math then why are you pursuing an AI class

This image explains Prolog:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/content/images/2007/03/19/prolog_sudbury2_450_450x300.jpg

I typed some stuff in this space but I'm not sure it would be useful to you. Tell us what you know about Prolog.

Step 1. Understand syntax
Step 2. Understand backtracking ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog#Evaluation )
Step 3. Satori

>>7
*Step 2a. Understand how to properly use the cut ("!") operator.

>>8
I.E. Dont, unless you have to, which you most probably mean never.

>>9
You need cuts to do anything non-trivial (like conditionals).

Prolog
Prolog
/prog/

>>11
you forgot your [spoiler] tags.

I had learned enough Prolog to solve a simple problem (similar to SEND MORE MONEY, but not quite) in 30 minutes or so.
What exactly you can't understand?

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