For whom did I write this book?
I believe this book will be useful and engaging if one or more of these descriptions apply to you:
- You are learning to code as part of a class or course.
- Through self-study, you want to learn to think like someone who writes software.
- You want to understand and use the fundamentals of modern Python programming.
- You recognize that quantum computing will be one of the most important technologies of this century, and you want to learn the basics of how to code for it.
- You think that solving a problem through software means you use all the tools available to you, and you want to employ both classical and the newer quantum coding techniques.
Assumed reader prerequisites
I do not expect you to have any experience in coding or using Python. Some of the discussion and implementation in Chapter 11, Searching for the Quantum Improvement, presumes comfort with some mathematics, but nothing that isn’t typically covered before a calculus course. This includes algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and logarithms.
This book does not cover the detailed mathematics and theory of quantum computing. For that, I direct you to my book Dancing with Qubits if you wish to learn more. [DWQ]
