This is a course with lectures, examples, tasks and solutions to learn programming in ROOT.<br><br>

It contains the most common tasks I emply in my research: writing a tree; reading a tree; filling a histogram; fitting a histogram; overlaying histograms; comiling ROOT code in C++ or using in PyROOT<br><br>

Please download the file, untar it, and read the file README.txt.<br>
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wget www.ppe.gla.ac.uk/~abuzatu/BuzatuCode/BuzatuROOT.tgz<br>
tar xvzf BuzatuCPPROOT.tgz<br>
cd BuzatuCPPOOT<br>
less README.txt<br>

Here I have functions I wrote in Python and PyROOT (ROOT from a Python interface) that help me in dealing with the histograms.
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wget www.ppe.gla.ac.uk/~abuzatu/BuzatuCode/BuzatuPython.tgz<br>
tar xvzf BuzatuPython.tgz<br>
cd BuzatuPython<br>
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To use these function in a Python script first do
export PYTHONPATH=${PWD}/BuzatuPython:${PYTHONPATH}<br>
and then in your .py file write<br>
from HelperPyROOT import * <br>

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Please send me your thoughts and comments, to improve it. <br>
http://adrianbuzatu.com/contact.html<br><br>

The context of the project is the following. I am a postdoc at the University of Glasgow. I do research in experimental particle physics. It means I write software to analyse data. My experiment is ATLAS at CERN. The topic is the Higgs boson. As a community we use ROOT, a collection of C++ libraries developed by CERN to store data, analyse the data and plot the data. It works both under Linux or Mac. It also has a Python interface called PyROOT. For four years I have been teaching C++ to first year PhD students from across Scotland, under the umbrella of the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Saint Andrews, Aberdeen, Dundee, Paisley, etc).<br>