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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!