Quantum Quick Start (D-Wave)

Quantum Quick Start bundles D-Wave’s Quantum Programming Core training with one additional month of unlimited Leap Quantum Cloud access for first-time Leap users. It is the highest-cost D-Wave offering and is designed for developers who want both the training and immediate production access to D-Wave’s Advantage system.

What’s included

• Full Quantum Programming Core curriculum (35 hours of instruction, quizzes, assignments, virtual office hours with D-Wave experts)
• One additional month of unlimited Leap Quantum Cloud access beyond the standard free tier — for first-time Leap users only
• Access to D-Wave’s physical quantum computers, hybrid solver services, Ocean SDK demos, and interactive code examples within the developer community

Quantum Programming Core curriculum

The training component covers the same material as Quantum Programming Core:

• D-Wave hardware overview and Advantage system architecture
• QUBO and Ising model formulation
• Penalty functions for constraint encoding
• Ocean SDK programming with BinaryQuadraticModel and samplers
• LeapHybridSampler and hybrid solving
• Embedding on the Pegasus qubit topology
• Solver benchmarking vs. classical heuristics
• Portfolio optimization as an end-to-end application

Who is this for?

Organizations and individual developers who are serious about building production optimization applications on D-Wave and want to combine structured training with extended hardware access. The additional Leap access allows you to run experiments and develop applications beyond what the standard free tier (1 minute of QPU time per month) provides.

Prerequisites

Same as Quantum Programming Core: intermediate Python skills and comfort with matrix math. No quantum computing background required.

Cost context

At $5,000, Quantum Quick Start is a significant commitment. The Leap cloud access component is the main differentiator from the standalone$1,000 Quantum Programming Core course. For developers whose primary goal is learning, Quantum Programming Core alone is the better value — D-Wave’s free developer tier (1 minute of QPU time per month) is sufficient for learning and experimentation at most stages of the curriculum.