Project Report

[danieljaffe]

[danieljaffe]

1. Design and evaluation
   Present the design of how you implemented the black-box function U_f. Assess how visually neat and easy to read it is.
   Present the design for how you prevent the user of U_f from accessing the implementation of U_f. Assess how well you succeeded.
   Present the design of how you parameterized the solution in n.
   Discuss the number of lines and percentage of code that your two programs share. Assess how well you succeeded in reusing code from one program to the next.
   Discuss your effort to test the two programs and present results from the testing. Discuss whether different cases of U_f lead to different execution times.
   What is your experience with scalability as n grows? Present a diagram that maps n to execution time.

2. Instructions
   Present a README file that describes how to input the function f, how to run the program, and how to understand the output.

3. PyQuil
   As a reflection on both homeworks on programming in PyQuil, address the following points.
   List three aspects of quantum programming in PyQuil that turned out to be easy to learn and list three aspects that were difficult to learn.
   List three aspects of quantum programming in PyQuil that the language supports well and list three aspects that PyQuil supports poorly.
   Which feature would you like PyQuil to support to make the quantum programming easier?
   List three positives and three negatives of the documentation of PyQuil.
   In some cases, PyQuil has its own names for key concepts in quantum programming. Give a dictionary that maps key concepts in quantum programming to the names used in PyQuil.
   How much type checking does the PyQuil implementation do at run time when a program passes data from the classical side to the quantum side and back?