My new book Dancing with Python: Learn Python software development from scratch and get started with quantum computing is now available for purchase from Amazon and Packt Publishing. Develop skills in Python by implementing exciting algorithms, including mathematical functions, classical searching, data analysis, plotting data, machine learning techniques, and quantum circuits. Key Features Learn Python…
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And the subtitle of Dancing with Python will be …
Almost two weeks ago, I put up a poll on LinkedIn asking for opinions on what should be the subtitle of my next book, Dancing with Python. Here are the poll results: The choices were: Learn to code using traditional and quantum computing techniques A unified introduction to classical and quantum Python software development Learn…
Poll on the subtitle of my next book, Dancing with Python
Packt will be publishing my next book, Dancing with Python, sometime around early September. From the draft preface: Once you have the philosophy, syntax, structure, and idioms of the classical programming language understood, you then learn quantum computing on top of that. For example, you could use the Qiskit open-source quantum computing software development kit…
How to listen to my Packt podcast about quantum computing on your phone
The Packt podcast with me talking about my quantum computing and my book Dancing with Qubits is now available. Here is how you can listen to it on your iPhone. I presume the directions for Android are similar. Open the Podcasts app on your phone. Click the magnifying glass and type Packt into the search…
SoundCloud Packt podcast with me about Dancing with Qubits and #QuantumComputing
Please join Stacy Munro, Richard Gall, and me for a podcast discussion about my new book about quantum computing, Dancing with Qubits. https://soundcloud.com/packt-podcasts/quantum-computing-explained-ibms-robert-sutor-talks-about-the-new-paradigm-on-the-horizon
Excerpt from Chapter 1 of Dancing with Qubits
Packt, the publisher of my quantum computing book Dancing with Qubits, just put this excerpt from the first chapter up on its website.
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: My five rules for making revisions from editorial comments
Today I finished making revisions to the book based on comments from the proofreader. All told, there have been five people providing feedback and comments for how I should modify, fix, and improve the content: me the technical reviewer the project editor the development editor the proof reader My editing started as soon as I…
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: Last minute tweaks to my quantum computing book cover
With a month to go before publication, we are still making last minute tweaks to my quantum computing book Dancing with Qubits. We made two changes to the cover this week. Can you spot the differences? The old version is the first image, the new version is the second: How do you interpret the change…
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…
