{"id":74434,"date":"2017-12-13T01:22:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T09:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/releases-free-preview-of-quantum-development-kit"},"modified":"2017-12-17T00:01:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T08:01:11","slug":"releases-free-preview-of-quantum-development-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/releases-free-preview-of-quantum-development-kit","title":{"rendered":"Releases free preview of Quantum Development Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/doNNClTTYwE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So you want to learn how to program a quantum computer. Now, there\u2019s a toolkit for that.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is releasing a free preview version of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/quantum\/development-kit\">Quantum Development Kit<\/a>, which includes the Q# programming language, a quantum computing simulator and other resources for people who want to start writing applications for a quantum computer. The Q# programming language was built from the ground up specifically for quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p>The Quantum Development Kit, which Microsoft first announced at its <a href=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/features\/new-microsoft-breakthroughs-general-purpose-quantum-computing-moves-closer-reality\/\">Ignite conference in September<\/a>, is designed for developers who are eager to learn how to program on quantum computers whether or not they are experts in the field of quantum physics.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/ai\/2017\/12\/11\/future-quantum-microsoft-releases-free-preview-quantum-development-kit\/?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral\">https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/ai\/2017\/12\/11\/future-quantum-mic...m=referral<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you want to learn how to program a quantum computer. Now, there\u2019s a toolkit for that. Microsoft is releasing a free preview version of its Quantum Development Kit, which includes the Q# programming language, a quantum computing simulator and other resources for people who want to start writing applications for a quantum computer. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74580,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74434\/revisions\/74580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}