Quantum computing is an emerging field that appears to be more and more difficult to avoid in a vast number of fields including physics, business, mathematics, chemistry, and more notably, data science. One such aspect of quantum computing that attracts the minds of many, especially data scientists, is its potential in advancing our knowledge in optimization problems. As such, it may be invaluable to understand the basics of quantum computing and how to start quantum programming now, even before the widespread availability of quantum computers. Even better, companies like Google, Microsoft, IBM, Rigetti, and more have developed their own open-source development kits to begin learning quantum computing. One such software package is called QuTip within Python.