I'm from MIT EECS too. Just to clarify for other people - we have a pool of "required courses", from which we only need to choose a few. So it's not like we must learn Coq.
OTOH, I've TAed an undergrad research class and it's mind boggling how many people are doing Coq-related research.
The 6.822 page[1] has a draft[2] of Adam Chlipala's "Formal Reasoning About Programs", "introducing both machine-checked proof with [Coq] and approaches to formal reasoning about program correctness".
Aha, good luck then! I really enjoyed that class, even after things got derailed by Covid. It was like a little problem-solving adventure every week. Still wish there were more Coq in the real world!
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Sample size of 1: I'm an EECS PhD student at MIT and one of my required courses (6.822) is taught entirely in Coq
I'm from MIT EECS too. Just to clarify for other people - we have a pool of "required courses", from which we only need to choose a few. So it's not like we must learn Coq.
OTOH, I've TAed an undergrad research class and it's mind boggling how many people are doing Coq-related research.
The 6.822 page[1] has a draft[2] of Adam Chlipala's "Formal Reasoning About Programs", "introducing both machine-checked proof with [Coq] and approaches to formal reasoning about program correctness".
[1] https://frap.csail.mit.edu/main [2] http://adam.chlipala.net/frap/frap_book.pdf
Any chance you took FRAP last spring? Hi, maybe-classmate :)
I'm taking it this semester!
Aha, good luck then! I really enjoyed that class, even after things got derailed by Covid. It was like a little problem-solving adventure every week. Still wish there were more Coq in the real world!