Getting Started

Sanity Check

Your first quantum circuit

Goal

Verify your environment works by creating and running a simple quantum circuit. If this works, you're ready for the rest of the workshop.

What You Will Do

  1. 1
    Open the notebook in Google Colab
  2. 2
    Run the setup cell to install Qiskit (takes ~30 seconds)
  3. 3
    Run the circuit cell to create your first quantum circuit
  4. 4
    See the output. Congratulations, you've run quantum code!

Exercise

5 minutes

Open in Google Colab

Success Criteria

  • Qiskit installed without errors
  • Circuit diagram displays
  • Simulation runs and shows results

Troubleshooting

  • Installation errors? Try "Runtime → Restart and run all"
  • Slow to load? Colab may need to allocate resources. Wait 30 seconds.
  • Still stuck? Raise your hand or check the Help page
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