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about dr donovan quantumcomputingcourses com skip to main content quantumcomputing courses com courses all courses course platforms coursera edx udemy brilliant hardware providers google quantum ai ibm quantum ionq quantinuum amazon braket azure quantum quera rigetti d wave tutorials all tutorials hello world qiskit hello world cirq hello world pennylane hello world braket quantum gates grover s algorithm shor s algorithm reference all frameworks qiskit cirq pennylane amazon braket pyquil tket d wave ocean q explore learn learning paths prerequisites programming guide case studies glossary books quantum news podcasts tools bloch sphere quantum pinball guides algorithm guide hardware guide qubit types framework comparison migration guide language timeline cheat sheets career events 2026 jobs careers certifications salary guide universities interview prep faq troubleshooting about about team search browse courses home about about dr donovan founder quantumcomputingcourses com quantumzeitgeist com built by dr donovan who fell hard for quantum physics and got frustrated enough to actually fix the learning resources where it started in 2018 i ran my first quantum circuit on ibm s 5 qubit processor through the ibm quantum experience i still remember sitting there watching the measurement histogram come back from actual quantum hardware real qubits a dilution refrigerator in a lab somewhere returning results that a classical bit literally cannot produce superposition collapsing on measurement entanglement showing up as perfect correlations in the output that was it for me i d been fascinated by quantum physics for years before that the double slit experiment bell s theorem the measurement problem the sheer strangeness of the fact that the universe computes this way at the lowest level getting to write actual code and watch it run on real quantum hardware made all of that feel viscerally real in a way that reading about it never quite did the problem was that the learning resources were genuinely awful everything was either pop science hand waving or phd level physics with no on ramp i d spend an hour reading course reviews open three coursera tabs watch someone s youtube breakdown of a udemy course and still not know which one was worth my time half the tutorials linked to deprecated qiskit 0 x code that threw errors the moment i tried to run it so i built the site i wanted one place with honest metadata working code and enough content to go from what even is a qubit to i can write and run circuits on real hardware the people who made it real quantum computing exists because of a handful of people who decided to take quantum physics seriously as a computational model at a time when most people thought it was an academic curiosity at best david deutsch is the one who started it his 1985 paper proposing the universal quantum computer was the first serious argument that quantum mechanics could be used to build a fundamentally different kind of computing machine not just faster not just more efficient but capable of things that are classically impossible in principle reading deutsch is like watching someone realize that the laws of physics are a programming language peter shor turned the theoretical curiosity into something urgent his 1994 algorithm showed that a quantum computer could factor large integers in polynomial time which means it could break the rsa encryption that protects most of the internet suddenly this was not just an interesting physics problem governments paid attention billions of dollars followed whether or not you care about cryptography shor s algorithm is the reason quantum computing got serious funding and serious engineering lov grover gave us something more subtle and in some ways more beautiful his 1996 search algorithm showed that a quantum computer can search an unsorted database in o sqrt n time instead of o n the quadratic speedup is not as dramatic as shor s exponential speedup but grover s algorithm applies to almost any search problem and the proof is elegant in a way that makes you want to read it twice just to appreciate it it was also one of the first hints that quantum advantage does not require exotic structure in the problem why this matters quantum computing is genuinely the future of computation for certain classes of problems not everything classical computers are not going anywhere but for simulating quantum chemistry optimizing combinatorial problems and running cryptographic protocols a fault tolerant quantum computer will do things that no classical machine can match regardless of how many transistors you stack we are not there yet current hardware is noisy circuit depth is limited error rates are still too high for the deep circuits that algorithms like shor s require on problem sizes that matter but the engineering progress over the past decade has been remarkable and the trajectory is real ibm went from 5 qubits in 2016 to 1 000 qubit processors by 2023 google demonstrated quantum supremacy on a classically intractable task in 2019 microsoft announced credible majorana qubit results in 2025 this is not vaporware the people learning quantum computing now are the ones who will build what comes next that is the actual reason i keep updating this site not to capture search traffic not to sell courses because i think this stuff matters and good learning resources for it are still genuinely hard to find what s on here the core of the site is the course catalog curated listings from coursera edx udemy brilliant and a few others with real prices and level labels the descriptions are written to tell you what you ll actually learn rather than copying the marketing copy the tutorials are all written and tested against current versions of the frameworks they cover when qiskit 1 0 shipped and broke basically every 0 x tutorial on the internet the affected content was rewritten if you find something broken or wrong emailing is the fastest way to get it fixed there s also a glossary with over 240 terms a hardware comparison guide an algorithm reference a salary guide for people thinking about careers in the field and a few interactive tools bloch sphere simulator a quantum gate pinball game that s more useful than it sounds for building intuition the timeline page is probably the most underrated thing on here it goes from shor s 1994 paper through majorana 1 in 2025 and traces how the field actually developed good for getting context before diving into the technical material a few honest opinions most quantum advantage demos so far are engineered problems random circuit sampling google s 2019 sycamore result and gaussian boson sampling xanadu s borealis result are interesting scientifically but not commercially relevant practical quantum advantage on problems anyone actually cares about drug discovery logistics materials requires fault tolerant hardware we don t have yet the software side is genuinely good to learn now qiskit pennylane and cirq are mature well documented frameworks running circuits on real hardware through ibm quantum is free and educational the concepts you learn now will be useful for the next decade regardless of when hardware catches up post quantum cryptography is the near term thing that matters most the nist pqc standards fips 203 204 205 206 published in 2024 are the start of a multi year migration that every organization needs to plan for this is happening now not in 20 years when a cryptographically relevant quantum computer shows up frameworks covered qiskit pennylane cirq tket braket q pyquil strawberry fields d wave ocean openqasm openql every framework page has an install reference quick start code and links to the tutorials that use it affiliate disclosure paid courses use affiliate links coursera edx udemy brilliant if you buy a course through a link on this site i earn a small commission this does not change which courses are listed or recommended i d rather point you to a 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