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Learn Quantum Computing with Python and Q#
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Learn Quantum Computing with Python and Q#

by Cassandra Granade, Sarah Kaiser
July 2021
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
11h 15m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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foreword

For most of its history, quantum computing was a field for physicists—perhaps a few having a proclivity for computer science, but not necessarily so. The popular textbook, Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, by Michael A. Nielsen and Isaac L. Chuang, is still considered the go-to textbook, and was written by two quantum physicists. To be sure, computer scientists have always been around, but some theoreticians wear how few lines of code they have written as a badge of honor. This is the quantum world myself, Kaiser, and Granade came of age in. I could easily shake my fist at the new cohort of students and yell, “When I was your age, we didn’t write code—we choked on chalk dust!”

I met Chris Granade while we were ...

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