Q# Blog

Inside the Quantum Katas, part 1

Mariia Mykhailova December 2, 2020 Dec 2, 2020 12/2/20

Learn about the internal structure of the Quantum Katas - our collection of self-paced programming exercises on quantum computing - and their most important component – the testing harnesses that provide the learner immediate feedback on their solutions.

Interning at Microsoft Quantum – 2021

Mariia Mykhailova November 17, 2020 Nov 17, 2020 11/17/20

We announce Microsoft Quantum internships for summer 2021, share some fun facts about the internships of the summer past, and highlight some of the things that are going to be new next summer.

Q# Advent Calendar 2020

Mariia Mykhailova October 27, 2020 Oct 27, 2020 10/27/20

Q# Advent Calendar is a blogging event in which every day in December one awesome community member writes a blog post about Q#. We hosted one in 2018 and in 2019; let's do it again!

Celebrating our open source community with Hacktoberfest

Mariia Mykhailova October 2, 2020 Oct 2, 2020 10/2/20

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.

Introducing Quantum Intermediate Representation (QIR)

Alan Geller September 23, 2020 Sep 23, 2020 09/23/20

QIR is a new Microsoft-developed intermediate representation for quantum programs. This post describes QIR and provides pointers to the specification and source code.

Build your own Q# simulator – Part 3: A circuit-diagram builder with ⟨q|pic⟩

Mathias Soeken August 13, 2020 Aug 13, 2020 08/13/20

We implement a custom simulator that generates a quantum circuit diagram in the ⟨q|pic⟩ format from Q# program execution traces.

Build your own Q# simulator – Part 2: Advanced features for the reversible simulator

Mathias Soeken June 2, 2020 Jun 2, 2020 06/2/20

This post is the second in a series on how to write your own Q# simulators. In this part we describe advanced features to extend the reversible simulator from the first post in the series.

Build your own Q# simulator – Part 1: A simple reversible simulator

Mathias Soeken May 8, 2020 May 8, 2020 05/8/20

Simulators are a particularly versatile feature of the QDK. This post is the first in a series that teaches you how to write your own simulators, thereby broadly extending the scope of Q#.

Extending the Q# Compiler

Bettina Heim February 26, 2020 Feb 26, 2020 02/26/20

In this blog post, I would like to talk about a feature that is especially interesting when it comes to new ways for you to incorporate your own ideas and vision into our tools: Custom compilation steps, which allow you to extend and customize the Q# compilation process.

Interning at Microsoft Quantum

Mariia Mykhailova January 16, 2020 Jan 16, 2020 01/16/20

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.