Getting Started with Quantum Programming

Quantum Computers are starting to slowly become a common term in the tech/physics community. However very few people know how they work much less how to program them.

I decided to take this as a challenge for myself and hopefully teach other people about this new and exciting technology!

A high-level overview of Quantum Computers:

→ Basically giving computers the super power to solve really long/hard/unfeasible problems.

Someone has to figure out how to code these things before we can start cracking the fun problems. Notable companies such as IBM, Rigetti, Microsoft and Xanad have created softwares that now allow us to start learning the language of these mystical computers. The focus today is on Strawberryfields, Xanadu’s open-source software for photonic quantum computing. (The fact its named after a Beatles song makes me love the language even more!)

The screenshot above shows the software Xanadu has created, the official programming language is called Blackbird (yet again another famous Beatles song). Visit their Documentation to learn how to get started!