Q# Blog

A Second Year of Q#

Alan Geller December 11, 2019 Dec 11, 2019 12/11/19

A look back at the second year of Q#.

New Tutorials: Learn the Basic Concepts of Quantum Computing

Mariia Mykhailova December 5, 2019 Dec 5, 2019 12/5/19

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#

Mariia Mykhailova December 4, 2019 Dec 4, 2019 12/4/19

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.

Quantum at Microsoft Ignite 2019

Megan Brown December 3, 2019 Dec 3, 2019 12/3/19

This year at Microsoft Ignite 2019, Microsoft announced Azure Quantum, a full-stack approach to quantum computing. The Microsoft Quantum team had a booth on the show floor as well as several sessions on all topics related to quantum computing during the conference.

What are Qubits?

Alan Geller December 1, 2019 Dec 1, 2019 12/1/19

We consider the true nature of qubits, both as physical objects and as how they should be represented in a programming language.

Q# Advent Calendar 2019

Mariia Mykhailova November 14, 2019 Nov 14, 2019 11/14/19

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

Mariia Mykhailova October 16, 2019 Oct 16, 2019 10/16/19

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

Mariia Mykhailova August 21, 2019 Aug 21, 2019 08/21/19

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

One Year of Quantum Katas

Mariia Mykhailova July 18, 2019 Jul 18, 2019 07/18/19

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.

Q# 0.6: Language Features and More

Bettina Heim May 25, 2019 May 25, 2019 05/25/19

With our April release coming out, you may have noticed some major changes. This is therefore a good time to recap the language features we have introduced over the last couple of months, elaborate a little bit on the newest changes, and peek into what is coming next.