Installation Guide for Qiskit Based Quantum Programming

This report describes how to install, configure, and maintain a local core software platform that is build around the popular and flexible source code editor Microsoft Visual Studio Code combined with a selection of added tools, which in version 1.0 consists of Python, Jupyter, Git, ... and the quantum back-ends are: Microsoft Azure Quantum. IBM Quantum. Amazon Web Services Braket. The overall objective of this note is to provide the insight and direct guides to make the following. We wish to establish a simulation, emulation and Quantum Computing hardware management entity on a local laptop or stationary computer.