Oh that's funny, I can not beat the classical computer.

That's not a thing we should keep in the video.

This game is very hard to beat.

Hello, my name is Abraham Asfaw,

and you can call me Abe if you'd like,

I'm originally from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

and today, I live in New York city

programming and learning how to develop

on quantum computers.

The point of this YouTube series

is to take you through the journey

of learning and discovering quantum computers

and programming quantum algorithms on them.

So Qiskit is how you program IBMs quantum computers.

The best thing about Qiskit is that it's open source

and freely available and what it means is that

you can use it, not only to build quantum algorithms

but also in real world applications.

So I started graduate school in 2012

and wanted to study experimental quantum computing.

Back then, in order to do these experiments,

you actually needed access to a research lab

that works on quantum computing.

So the time it took for you to go from

oh, I have an idea to okay I can now do the experiment

was several days,

but now using Qiskit, you can do all of the work

with quantum computing from your laptop.

Once you know how to program

quantum computers using Qiskit,

now you can focus on various application areas.

One particular area that you can focus on

is quantum chemistry, so for example,

calculating the bond length of molecules.

So another area that you can focus on

is the development of quantum algorithms.

One of my favorite quantum algorithms

is what's called the Bernstein-Vazirani algorithm.

This is a really interesting algorithm

so imagine you have a box

with a number inside it that you don't know.

You can find out what secret number

is inside that box, in one shot.

And one of the really cool things that we can also do

is program games based on quantum computing.

So on this screen,

what we have is a game quantum pong or Q-pong for short,

and the idea is to create a quantum circuit

at the very bottom of the screen here

as you can see

which moves the paddle based on the outcome

of the quantum computation from that circuit.

So let me try and beat the classical computer,

oh, there we go,

so watch me create a super position now,

between those two but it doesn't matter

because I'm gonna lose anyway.

However, now we have an interesting situation,

look at that, boom!

Just lost.

It went through because the measurement

forced the superposition to collapse into the bottom paddle

and not the top one.

This is a very good way to teach quantum computing

and generally how to create quantum algorithms,

even though I'm losing pretty hard,

and as you can see, you can develop

not only quantum algorithms

but also quantum applications and games using Qiskit.

So through out this whole YouTube series,

the goal will be to explore this different range of things

that you can do

and eventually to learn how to program a quantum computer.

In the next episode, we'll be covering in detail

how to install QISKit

and get ready to start programming with it,

and then we'll show you how to use Qiskit.

So for those who have started

on your journey with quantum computing,

or even those of you

who have generally been curious about the field,

what are the kinds of things

that you want to know more about.

What questions can we answer,

please leave those in the comments down below.

Thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next episode.