Mariia Mykhailova

Celebrating our open source community with Hacktoberfest

October 2nd, 2020

It is October, and this means it's time for Hacktoberfest - an annual celebration of open source! Meet our newest maintainer and learn how to participate in the Quantum Hacktoberfest.

Interning at Microsoft Quantum

January 16th, 2020

We describe internships at the Microsoft Quantum team, the differences between research and engineering internships, and some of the projects done by our past interns.

Festivus: Q# Feats of Strength

December 23rd, 2019

Q# team celebrates Festivus by listing Q# strengths - their favorite language features and tools.

New Tutorials: Learn the Basic Concepts of Quantum Computing

December 5th, 2019

We present the new set of introductory tutorials on the basic concepts of quantum computing, complete with programming exercises in Python and Q#.

Teaching Quantum Computing with Q#

December 4th, 2019

This winter our team had an exciting opportunity to teach an introductory course on quantum computing at the University of Washington, led by Krysta Svore. This post is an overview of the course and its results.

Q# Advent Calendar 2019

November 14th, 2019

Last year we hosted the first Q# Advent Calendar - a blogging event in which every day in December one awesome community member writes a blog post about Q#. I really enjoyed reading last year's entries, so let's do it again!

Grace Hopper Celebration 2019: Recap

October 16th, 2019

Grace Hopper Celebration 2019 – the world’s largest gathering of women technologists – featured several sessions on quantum computing as part of the "Emerging Technologies" track. We presented one of these sessions, a workshop titled “Introduction to Quantum Computing with Grover`s Search". In this post we share the highlights of the trip.

Quantum Koan: High Probability

August 21st, 2019

A novice approached the master asking for a code review of his implementation of Grover's search...

One Year of Quantum Katas

July 18th, 2019

In July 2018 we announced the Quantum Katas – an open-source project aimed at teaching quantum computing and Q# programming. This July we’re celebrating the first anniversary of the Katas, so I decided to step back for a moment and look at how the project grew and evolved during this year.

Solve the Quantum Katas Online with Jupyter Notebooks

April 30th, 2019

We present the first batch of Quantum Katas - self-paced tutorials for learning quantum computing and Q# - in Jupyter Notebook format. Now you can solve the tasks from the tutorials in your browser without having to install any extra software.