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This research compares and contrasts two commonly available quantum computing platforms available today to academic researchers: the IBM Q-Experience and the University of Maryland's IonQ. Hands-on testing utilized the implementation of a simple two qubit circuit and tested the Pauli X, Y, and Z single-qubit gates as well as the CNOT 2+ qubit gate and compared the results, as well as the user experience. The user experience and the interface must be straightforward to help the user's understanding when planning quantum computing training for new knowledge workers in this exciting new field. Additionally, we demonstrate how a quantum computer's results, when the output is read in the classical computer, loses some of its information, since the quantum computer is operating in more dimensions than the classical computer can interpret. This is demonstrated with the ZX and XZ gates which appear to give the same result; however, using the mathematics of matrix notation, the phase difference between the two answers is revealed in their vectors, which are 180 degrees apart.