People occasionally ask me about the tools I use for writing and coding. Visual Studio Code is my editor of choice, and it’s the best I’ve ever used. I change visual themes every few months to see if there is one I like better than the last. My current theme is Dark+ Material. I use…
Tag: LaTeX
The Amazon Kindle version of Dancing with Qubits is now available!
I’m pleased to announce that the Amazon Kindle version of my quantum computing book Dancing with Qubits is now available! This book provides a comfortable and conversational introduction to quantum computing. I take you through the mathematics you need at a pace that allows you to understand not just “what” but also “why.” When we…
Dancing With Qubits, First Edition: What about the eBook?
Yesterday was very exciting because I received my first printed copy of the book. There’s just something about holding a physical, printed book that you’ve labored over for many months. Others are starting to get their copies too, and I hope that within a couple of weeks everyone who pre-ordered the print version will have…
Dancing With Qubits, First Edition: What’s in the book
This morning I awoke to a very nice email from Tom Jacob, the Project Editor for my book at Packt Publishing. He said, in part, We were able to successfully ship the book to our printers. … Congratulations on achieving this milestone! As I’ve mentioned before, my book was prepared using LaTeX and not Microsoft…
Dancing With Qubits, First Edition: Drawing quantum circuits
This entry is for people who use the LaTeX document preparation system, as I did in the book. It’s not a tutorial on LaTeX in general, but shows some techniques for drawing quantum circuits. To be direct, it’s pretty geeky for LaTeX people. An early decision I had to make was how to draw quantum…
Dancing With Qubits, First Edition: The writing process – what format?
Before I discuss what and I how I wrote, let me talk about the markup of the book. By “markup” I mean the underlying format of the content that determines its structure such as the title page, table of contents, parts, chapters, sections, paragraphs, bibliography, and the index, along with font styles and sizes. In…
Dancing With Qubits, First Edition: Let me preface my remarks with …
Way back in 1992, Springer-Verlag published my first book Axiom: The Scientific Computation System, co-authored with the late Richard D. Jenks. Since then I’ve thought of writing other books, but work and life in general caused enough inertia that I never got around to it. I first got involved with IBM’s quantum computing effort in…
My Visual Studio Code extensions for LaTeX and Python
I’m in the final stages of writing a book about quantum computing using LaTeX and I also do a lot of Python programming when I get a chance. A couple of years ago, I decided to try using the Visual Studio Code editor and I just love it. I’ve used dozens of programming editors in…
A tikz macro for drawing axes and grid for LaTeX
I’m writing something that requires me to draw many plots in the Cartesian plane R2 and so I wrote this macro to simplify the process. The arguments are The optional tikzpicture scaling factor The x-coordinate of the lower left corner The y-coordinate of the lower left corner The x-coordinate of the upper right corner The…
