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Pass through Chapter 4
author Adam Chlipala <adam@chlipala.net>
date Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:45:04 -0500
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adamc@39 5 <title>Certified Programming with Dependent Types</title>
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adamc@39 7 <h1>Certified Programming with Dependent Types</h1>
adamc@69 8 <h2><a href="http://adam.chlipala.net/">Adam Chlipala</a></h2>
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adamc@39 10 <div class="summary">
adamc@39 11 <p>This is the web site for an in-progress textbook about practical engineering with <a href="http://coq.inria.fr/">the Coq proof assistant</a>. The focus is on building programs with proofs of correctness, using dependent types and scripted proof automation.</p>
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adamc@267 13 <p>I'm following an unusual philosophy in this book, so it may be of interest even to long-time Coq users. At the same time, I hope that it provides an easier introduction for newcomers, since short and automated proofs are the starting point, rather than an advanced topic.</p>
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adam@309 15 <p>Interested in beta testing this book in a course you're teaching? Please <a href="mailto:adamc@csail.mit.edu">drop me a line</a>!</p>
adam@299 16
adam@309 17 <p>A traditional hardcopy version will appear from <a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/">MIT Press</a> Real Soon Now<a href="http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/R/Real-Soon-Now.html">*</a>.</p>
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adamc@39 20 <div class="project">
adamc@226 21 <h2>Distribution Formats</h2>
adamc@39 22 <ul>
adamc@39 23 <li> <a href="cpdt.pdf">Latest draft as a PDF</a></li>
adamc@39 24 <li> <a href="html/toc.html">Online version of latest draft, as hyperlinked HTML</a></li>
adamc@39 25 <li> <a href="cpdt.tgz">Tarball of Coq source to latest draft</a></li>
adam@321 26 <li> <a href="repo">Public, read-only Mercurial repository</a></li>
adamc@268 27 <li> <a href="updates.rss">RSS feed of updates</a></li>
adamc@226 28 </ul>
adamc@226 29 </div>
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adamc@226 31 <div class="project">
adam@489 32 <h2><a href="ex/">Online Collection of Exercises for the Book</a></h2>
adam@489 33 </div>
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adam@489 35 <div class="project">
adamc@226 36 <h2>Used by:</h2>
adamc@226 37 <ul>
adam@481 38 <li>CIS 670 at Penn <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/courses/670Fall12/">(Fall 2012)</a></li>
adam@308 39 <li>6.892 at MIT <a href="http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/6/fa11/6.892/">(Fall 2011)</a></li>
adam@308 40 <li>CS252 at Harvard <a href="http://www.cs.harvard.edu/~adamc/cpdt/">(Fall 2008)</a></li>
adamc@226 41 </ul>
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adamc@226 44 <div class="project">
adamc@226 45 <h2>Status</h2>
adamc@226 46
adam@482 47 <p>Updated on November 16, 2009 with a version retargeted to Coq 8.2pl1, then again on January 14, 2011 to support Coq 8.3, and then again on March 29, 2012 to support Coq 8.4 beta. On August 25, 2011, I started passes through all chapters, with an eye toward getting ready both for <a href="http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/6/fa11/6.892/">my fall class</a> and publication by MIT Press. I added bibliographic references and index entries, along with the usual tweaks and improvements. In late Summer 2012, the mode switched to final proofreading by others.</p>
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adamc@266 49 <p>The current version is effectively a beta release. It is intended to be consistent, self-contained, and useful, both for individual study and for introductory theorem-proving classes aimed at students with ML or Haskell experience and with basic familiarity with programming language theory.</p>
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adam@380 51 <p>The main omissions have to do with some supporting resources that I didn't get around to implementing when I used this book for a course. Some suggested exercises are present (now only in a supplementary file), but only at points where I was looking to assign an exercise in the course. Some chapters are lacking the annotations used to build reduced versions of their source code, where some definitions and proofs have been elided; the course instructor can step through such a file, guiding class participants in filling in the omitted code.</p>
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adam@332 53 <p>Previous versions included a final Part on programming language semantics in particular. I have decided to separate that part out. I plan to put it up as a supplementary resource eventually; for now it is simply removed. (It remains present in the <a href="repo">Mercurial</a> history.)</p>
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