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### YamlMime:Landing

title: Microsoft Quantum Documentation
summary: Learn how to use the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit and Q#, a language for quantum programming. Learn key concepts and write your first quantum program. Explore the rich tools and libraries of the QDK.
metadata:

  title: Microsoft Quantum Documentation and Q# API Reference
  description: Explore the concepts of quantum computing and how to use the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit (QDK) and Q#, an open source quantum programming language.
  ms.prod: quantum
  ms.topic: landing-page
  ms.collection: collection
  author: cjgronlund
  ms.author: cgronlun
  ms.date: 10/21/2019


# linkListType: architecture | concept | deploy | download | get-started | how-to-guide | learn | overview | quickstart | reference | tutorial | video | whats-new

landingContent:

  # Card (optional)
  - title: Quantum computing
    linkLists:
      - linkListType: learn
        links:
          - text: What is quantum computing?
            url: overview/what-is-quantum-computing.md
          - text: What can a quantum computer do?
            url: overview/quantum-computers.md
          - text: Why learn quantum computing?
            url: overview/why-learn-quantum-computing.md
          - text: What are Q# and the QDK?
            url: overview/what-is-qsharp.md
          - text: How can I learn more?
            url: overview/how-to-learn-quantum-computing.md
      - linkListType: concept
        links:
          - text: Quantum computing concepts
            url: concepts/index.md


  # Develop
  - title: Get the Quantum Development Kit
    linkLists:
      - linkListType: overview
        links:
          - text: The Quantum Development Kit
            url: welcome.md
      - linkListType: download
        links:
          - text: Install the QDK
            url: install-guide/index.md
          - text: Update the QDK
            url: install-guide/update.md


  # Development
  - title: Q# programming language
    linkLists:
      - linkListType: overview
        links:
          - text: Q# language introduction
            url: language/index.md
          - text: Q# development techniques
            url: techniques/index.md
          - text: "Quantum simulators & host applications"
            url: machines/index.md
      - linkListType: quickstart
        links:
          - text: Build a quantum random number generator
            url: quickstarts/qrng.md
          - text: Exploring entanglement with Q#
            url: quickstart.md
          - text: "Quantum speedup: Grover's search algorithm"
            url: quickstarts/search.md
      - linkListType: learn
        links:
          - text: Learn with the Quantum Katas
            url: intro-to-katas.md
          - text: Browse Q# code samples
            url: https://docs.microsoft.com/samples/browse/?languages=qsharp


  # Community and contribution
  - title: "Community & contribution"
    linkLists:
      - linkListType: how-to-guide
        links:
          - text: Contribute to the QDK
            url: contributing/index.md
          - text: Read the Microsoft Quantum blog
            url: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/quantum


  # Library card
  - title: Q# libraries
    linkLists:
      - linkListType: reference
        links:
          - text: Standard libraries
            url: libraries/standard/index.md
          - text: Chemistry library
            url: libraries/chemistry/index.md
          - text: Machine learning library
            url: libraries/machine-learning/index.md
          - text: Numerics library
            url: libraries/numerics/index.md