The section on the IBM quantum computer covers the set of gates available for algorithms, the actual physical gates implemented, how the qubits are connected and the sources of noise, or errors.

So programming languages are deliberately designed to be unambiguous to avoid confusion. Brennan agrees that previously this required strict syntax.

There are a whole series of books for dummies. They started with computer programming for dummies, which makes no sense at all.

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of ...

These tools speed up programming and are getting better and better at generating correct, compilable and executable code. The internet is full of stories of non-coders creating simple applications ...