Dancing with Python: Learn Python software development from scratch and get started with quantum computing

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 basics to write elegant and efficient code
Create quantum circuits and algorithms using Qiskit and run them on quantum computing hardware and simulators
Delve into Python's advanced features, including machine learning, analyzing data, and searching

Book Description

Coding is the art and engineering of creating software, and Python has been one of the core coding languages for many years. This introductory Python book helps you learn classical and quantum computing in a unified and practical way. It will help you explore work with numbers, strings, collections, iterators, and files.

The book goes beyond functions and classes and teaches you to use Python and Qiskit to create gates and circuits for classical and quantum computing. Learn how quantum extends classical techniques using the Grover Search Algorithm and the code that implements it. Dive into some advanced and widely used applications of Python and revisit strings with more sophisticated tools such as regular expressions and basic natural language processing (NLP). The final chapters introduce you to data analysis, visualizations, and supervised and unsupervised machine learning. By the end of the book, you will be proficient in classical coding and programming the latest and most powerful quantum computers.
What you will learn

Create Python code using numbers, strings, collections, classes, objects, functions, conditionals, loops, and operators
Write succinct code the Pythonic way using magic methods, iterators, and generators
Explore different quantum gates and use them to build quantum circuits
Analyze data, build basic machine learning models and plot the results
Search for information using traditional methods and the quantum Grover Search Algorithm
Optimize and test your code to run efficiently

Who This Book Is For

The book is for Python and coding beginners. Basic familiarity with algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and logarithms is required as the book does not cover the detailed mathematics and theory of quantum computing. You can check out the author’s Dancing with Qubits book, also published by Packt, for an approachable and comprehensive introduction to quantum computing.
Table of Contents

Doing the Things that Coders Do
Working with Expressions
Collecting Things Together
Stringing You Along
Computing and Calculating
Defining and Using Functions
Organizing Objects into Classes
Working with Files
Understanding Gates and Circuits
Optimizing and Testing Your Code
Searching for the Quantum Improvement
Searching and Changing Text
Creating Plots and Charts
Analyzing Data
Learning Briefly
Appendix A Tools
Appendix B. Staying current
The Complete UniPoly Class
The Complete Guitar Class Hierarchy
Appendix E. Notices
Appendix D. Production Notes