Target Student Computing Class 2016

Thursday 14 Jul 2016, 13:00 → 16:00 US/Central

Ruth Pordes (Fermilab)

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 https://github.com/onlineth/Target2016/blob/master/Tutorials/PythonTutorial_P1.md

Glowscript code https://trinket.io/glowscript/31d0f9ad9e

Pretest for the teacher https://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic/survey/results.jsp?type=pre

13:00 → 14:00 Introduction, demo and Recap

13:00 Python training part 2

13:00 Virtual Reality for a Fermilab Physics Experiment

Speakers: Dr Matthew Bass (University of Oxford), Dr Michael Kirby (FNAL)

14:00 → 15:00 Python learning and examples

Example problem Hello_world_problem.txt

Helpful link about python 2.7 vs 3.5 http://sebastianraschka.com/Articles/2014_python_2_3_key_diff.html

Problem solution HelloWorldExample.py

15:00 → 16:00 I2U2 Pretest and answers - the data