Developing Programming Assignments for Teaching Quantum Computing and Quantum Programming

TL;DR

This paper presents a set of practical programming assignments designed to teach quantum computing, enabling learners to gain hands-on experience across the entire quantum software development lifecycle.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive suite of assignments that cover problem-solving, implementation, debugging, resource estimation, and execution on quantum hardware.

Findings

Assignments facilitate practical understanding of quantum programming

Learners can practice debugging and resource estimation

Assignments support execution on real quantum hardware

Abstract

This report describes a variety of programming assignments that can be used to teach quantum computing in a practical manner. These assignments let the learners get hands-on experience with all stages of quantum software development process, from solving quantum computing problems and implementing the solutions to debugging the programs, performing resource estimation, and running the code on quantum hardware.