  A strategy is suggested for teaching mathematically literate students, with
no background in physics, just enough quantum mechanics for them to understand
and develop algorithms in quantum computation and quantum information theory.
Although the article as a whole addresses teachers of physics, well versed in
quantum mechanics, the central pedagogical development is addressed directly to
computer scientists and mathematicians, with only occasional asides to their
teacher. Physicists uninterested in quantum pedagogy may be amused (or
irritated) by some of the views of standard quantum mechanics that arise
naturally from this unorthodox perspective.
