Intro to Quantum Programming

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redmac135/intro-quantum-computing

Installing a Package Manager

Commands differ between MacOS and Windows users. Be sure to use the correct commands.

For Windows Powershell (ensure you are in an administrative shell):

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'));
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

For MacOS:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Congratulations! You’ve now successfully installed a package manager.

Installing the Required Packages

For Windows:

choco install git python vscode

For MacOS:

brew install git pyenv
brew install --cask visual-studio-code

Now you have python, vscode, and git installed on your machine. Depending on installation, your device may require a restart now.

Installing VS Code Extensions

In VS Code, navigate to the Extensions tab and install the “Python Extension” as shown below:

How to Install the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code

Using DWave

Navigate to the D-Wave Leap website and create an account. Once you have an account, you can access the Leap IDE and run your code on a real quantum computer!

Running Code!

Open vscode’s terminal, pick any folder to work in, and clone the example code from the workshop:

git clone https://github.com/redmac135/intro-quantum-computing.git

Next, create and use a python virtual environment using the python extension:

  1. Ctrl + Shift + P to open the command palette.
  2. Type >Python: create Environment... note the first character > should already be typed for you.
  3. Choose Venv as the environment type.
  4. Choose the first python version you see (it should be the latest version).
  5. Select requirements.txt when asked which dependencies to install.

Now you should be able to run the terminal command dwave setup --auth to authenticate your account.

  1. Ctrl + ` to open the terminal.
  2. Type dwave setup --auth and press Enter.

This should open a browser window or give you a link to open in your browser. In the browser, you should log in with your LEAP account.

Finally, open the python file and run it!

Conclusion

Congrats! You’ve now run code on an actual quantum computer! 🎉