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Software
This course will make use of the following software:
Lean
1 Installing Lean
The recommended setup is Lean 4 with Visual Studio Code:
Install Visual Studio Code.
Install the official Lean 4 VS Code extension. In VS Code, open the Extensions sidebar, search for Lean 4, and install the extension published by leanprover.
Follow the Lean quickstart to create or open a Lean project. The extension will guide you through installing the Lean toolchain using elan if it is not already installed.
After installation, open a .lean file in VS Code and check that the Lean infoview appears. You can also confirm the command-line tools with lean –version and lake –version.