Quantum Computing

Your First Quantum Program

The way to program quantum computers differs from what you would do for traditional computers. Although the quantum programming syntax borrows from today’s computer languages, such as JavaScript, C#, or Python, the underlying concepts are widely divergent. Objects such as JavaScript Promises help us write organized and efficient code. But, under the hood, the machine language instructions are pretty much the same as those, say, for FORTRAN or BASIC. Quantum programming is different. The underlying hardware has fundamentally changed. So, to write code that works on these machines, we need to rethink the way we write computer programs.

Rather than introduce quantum computing on a “Hello World” program or some other ...