There's this book.....
...on my shelves about DIY Artificial Intelligence (or, more accurately, Machine Learning). It describes predictive algorithms and gives you some to try. Since it was published in 1983 or 1984 the examples it gives are in some early form of BASIC. It does explain in the introduction that, yes, researchers tended to use exotic logic programming languages you don't actually need that stuff to demonstrate how these algorithms work and even get useful results out of them.
There's wisdom in that text.....I've often thought that trainee programmers should be given small, slow, computers to work with so that they get a bit of a feel for how code gets executed.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
