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Are there any recommended Quantum Computing MOOCs for the beginner currently out there?
by thrwthrw93223 8y ago
Are there any recommended Quantum Computing MOOCs for the beginner currently out there?
- dfan 8y agoThere's Quantum Information Science (https://www.edx.org/course/quantum-information-science-i https://www.edx.org/course/quantum-information-science-i) on edX. Pros: - It's an MIT graduate class (this could be a con if you are a beginner in other areas and not just in quantum computation). - It's taught by Isaac Chuang (of Nielsen & Chuang, the leading textbook on quantum computing) and Peter Shor (of the Shor factoring algorithm, the most famous quantum algorithm). Cons: - Shor does 90% of the lectures, and he is... not a good teacher. - When I took it, there was almost zero support (e.g., when there were bugs in the problem sets). I'm glad I took it, because it induced me to learn a bunch of material I had been wanting to learn for a while, but compared to what it could have been it was pretty disappointing.
- SurfaceCode 8y agoCheck out Umesh Vazirani's course from UC Berkley's open courseware. It's accessible.
- thrwthrw93223 8y agoThanks. Can you provide a link? The edx course is down and the YouTube collection I found has a missing video.
- SurfaceCode 8y agoHmmmm. I'm not sure. I can't seem to access it any more either. Sorry! :(