Target Student Computing Class 2016

US/Central
Ruth Pordes (Fermilab)
Description


Location Hornets’ Nest WH8X

Class 2  Lesson Plan:
Hour 1: Introduction to the MicroBooNe Detector for detecting Neutrinos and their properties, together with the VENU application for exploring the detector and data using Virtual Reality.
https://github.com/bcarls/VENu 
and what stimluated  this http://virtualreality.duke.edu/project/super-kave/

Hour 1 in parallel and Hour 2: Continuing to try to write small Python programs and go down the road to learn something about the programming language and use it (in groups). 

Hour 3: Review the pretest input and answers for I2U2.
http://i2u2.org


(OpenCosmics - https://github.com/OpenCosmics and https://webfest.web.cern.ch/content/open-cosmics-cosmic-ray-physics-everyone )
Teaching Assistants: Nate Knauf. Thomas Hein
Exmple Python code to copy/learn
Glowscript code
Pretest for the teacher
    • 13:00 14:00
      Introduction, demo and Recap
      • 13:00
        Python training part 2 45m
      • 13:00
        Virtual Reality for a Fermilab Physics Experiment 45m
        Speakers: Dr Matthew Bass (University of Oxford), Dr Michael Kirby (FNAL)
    • 14:00 15:00
      Python learning and examples
      Example problem
      Helpful link about python 2.7 vs 3.5
      Problem solution
    • 15:00 16:00
      I2U2 Pretest and answers - the data