[drkevorkian]

This is a cool demo, but I'm afraid this is the wrong pedagogical approach to understanding quantum computing.

The representation of the quantum state as a bar chart is difficult to interpret and provides little intuition. The fact is, visualizing vectors in high-dimensional spaces is hard, much less vectors in high-dimensional complex spaces. Bra-ket notation is pretty much the best thing we have right now.

But more generally, "Quantum programming" will almost certainly look nothing like this. This is like programming a classical computer by describing a boolean circuit. It's an extremely useful model for researchers working with actual hardware, but there's a reason we currently program with lambda calculi, not NAND gates. Understanding how to capture the possibilities of quantum circuits in a higher-level language is an open problem. Many interesting attempts have been made at solving it, but none convincingly in my opinion.