After you click, you'll be asked: Do you want to RUN or SAVE this file? Click RUN, and then click RUN again when asked to confirm your choice. Soon this dialog box will appear:

After you install, click the LogiCola cola-can icon to start the program: If you installed to a flash drive, open it using MY COMPUTER so you can get to the LogiCola icon. If you installed to your computer, the LogiCola icon will be on your desktop or on your Start-menu program-list.

LogiCola

BOOK: The second edition of Gensler's Introduction to Logic, which goes with LogiCola, will be published by Routledge press by January 12, 2010. Click here or here to order.

FURTHER UPDATES: If I modify LogiCola, you can repeat the process described above to update your program; this won't erase your scores. However, it's easier to update within LogiCola, using the TOOLS | UPDATE LOGICOLA option on LogiCola's menu bar; you can check for updates automatically or manually -- and if you want to update then you can do so just by clicking YES.

DOWNLOAD DIFFICULTIES: If you lack a Web connection or have problems installing LogiCola from the Web, then you can install LogiCola to a flash drive from any computer that has LogiCola installed (just use the TOOLS | COPY SCORES OR PROGRAM TO FLASH DRIVE option on LogiCola's menu bar).

WINDOWS VERSIONS: I've tested the current LogiCola in Windows XP (32-bit), Windows Vista (32- and 64-bit), and Windows 7 (64-bit) -- and it works fine; it should also work fine in the 32-bit version of Windows 7, but I haven't tested this. For earlier versions of Windows, use these zipped forms of the 2003 LogiCola (which also includes a DOS version for ancient computers) and its score processing program.

MACINTOSH & LINUX: Even though LogiCola is a Windows program, some run it in Mac or Linux using Wine (which is free and doesn't require a copy of Windows). Here's a tutorial on how to run LogiCola on a Mac using Wine. You can also consult tutorials on how to install Wine on Mac or Linux -- or Google "install Wine on Macintosh" or "install Wine on Linux" -- or get a geek friend to install it for you. Another possibility is to run LogiCola in a free Virtual Box running Windows (which you have to get and install). If you have further insights on using LogiCola on Mac/Linux, e-mail me and I'll share the wisdom.

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View LogiCola Help (or LogiSkor Help), which don't work
within LogiCola (or LogiSkor) if you use the Wine emulation.

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Things you can also access from LogiCola's HELP menu:

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS: teacher manual for second edition of the book, teacher manual for first edition, Logic Pretest, Flashcards, Sample Quizzes, and classroom slides for many chapters: Introduction, Syllogistic Logic, Fallacies, Basic Propositional Logic, Propositional Proofs, Basic Quantificational Logic, Relations and Identity, Basic Modal Logic, Further Modal Systems, Deontic and Imperative Logic, Belief Logic, A Formalized Ethical Theory, Metalogic, History of Logic, Deviant Logic.

RELATED WEB SITES: a logic pre-test useful in the first week of studying logic, syllabi for my basic and intermediate logic courses, Charles Ling's syllabus with PowerPoint slides, and the Routledge home page for the first edition of my Introduction to Logic book (with older versions of LogiCola and other things).