art/LArSoft Course

3 Aug 2015, 08:00 → 7 Aug 2015, 18:00 US/Central

CDF Big Room

The art and LArSoft development teams will present a one-week course on the use of art and LArSoft this August 3-7, at Fermilab. The goal of the course is to help newcomers to art and LArSoft along the path to becoming able to contribute to their experiment's code, or to the shared LArSoft software. Note: We have now 50 registrants for the workshop, Please email Saba Sehrish (ssehrish@fnal.gov) and Marc Paterno (paterno@fnal.gov) to be waitlisted.

Draft Schedule schedule.pdf

Instructions for each Session https://cdcvs.fnal.gov/redmine/projects/art-larsoft-course/wiki/Instructions_for_Each_Session

Prerequisites https://cdcvs.fnal.gov/redmine/projects/art-larsoft-course/wiki/Prerequisites

Updating using git pull https://cdcvs.fnal.gov/redmine/projects/art-larsoft-course/wiki/Updating_to_a_New_Version_of_the_Workbook_Code

Monday, 3 August

C++ Review: Basics of C++

The goal of Monday morning is to get students up to speed on some of the critical
parts of C++ upon which we will rely for the entire course. We will introduce
some of the basics of good coding practice. This first morning is NOT intended as an introduction to C++ for
those who do not meet the prerequisites described at https://cdcvs.fnal.gov/redmine/projects/art-larsoft-course/wiki/Prerequisites.

slides

• BasicsOfCpp.pdf
• BasicsOfDataStructures.pdf
• BasicsOfResourceManagement.pdf

09:50 Break

C++ Review: Basics of Resource Management

The goal of Monday morning is to get students up to speed on some of the critical
parts of C++ upon which we will rely for the entire course. We will introduce
some of the basics of good coding practice. This first morning is NOT intended as an introduction to C++ for
those who do not meet the prerequisites described at https://cdcvs.fnal.gov/redmine/projects/art-larsoft-course/wiki/Prerequisites.

slides

• BasicsOfCpp.pdf
• BasicsOfDataStructures.pdf
• BasicsOfResourceManagement.pdf

10:50 Break

C++ Review: Basic data structures

The goal of Monday morning is to get students up to speed on some of the critical
parts of C++ upon which we will rely for the entire course. We will introduce
some of the basics of good coding practice. This first morning is NOT intended as an introduction to C++ for
those who do not meet the prerequisites described at https://cdcvs.fnal.gov/redmine/projects/art-larsoft-course/wiki/Prerequisites.

slides

• BasicsOfCpp.pdf
• BasicsOfDataStructures.pdf
• BasicsOfResourceManagement.pdf

11:50 Lunch break

Introduction to art: Framework introduction

The goal of Monday afternoon is to introduce people to the parts of the framework,
and to the environment in which framework programs are run.

slides

• framework-introduction.pdf
• setup-art.pdf
• setup-development.pdf

Introduction to art: Setup for using art

The goal of Monday afternoon is to introduce people to the parts of the framework,
and to the environment in which framework programs are run.

slides

• framework-introduction.pdf
• setup-art.pdf
• setup-development.pdf

14:50 Break

Introduction to art: Setting up for development of experiment code

The goal of Monday afternoon is to introduce people to the parts of the framework,
and to the environment in which framework programs are run.

slides

• framework-introduction.pdf
• setup-art.pdf
• setup-development.pdf

Tuesday, 4 August

art modules: More module interface

The goal of Tuesday morning is to understand the full interface of an art module, and how they are created and configured.

slides

• Session07.pdf
• Session08.pdf
• Session09.pdf

09:40 Break

art modules: Details of module configuration

The goal of Tuesday morning is to understand the full interface of an art module, and how they are created and configured.

slides

• Session07.pdf
• Session08.pdf
• Session09.pdf

11:00 Break

art modules: Multiple instances of a module

The goal of Tuesday morning is to understand the full interface of an art module, and how they are created and configured.

slides

• Session07.pdf
• Session08.pdf
• Session09.pdf

11:50 Lunch Break

Beginning analysis with art: Using existing data products

The goal of Tuesday afternoon is to familiarize people with the development environment,
in the context of starting to analyze data (i.e. making histograms) in the art
setting.

slides

• session10.pdf
• session11.pdf
• session12.pdf

Beginning analysis with art: Making histograms I

The goal of Tuesday afternoon is to familiarize people with the development environment,
in the context of starting to analyze data (i.e. making histograms) in the art
setting.

slides

• session10.pdf
• session11.pdf
• session12.pdf

14:20 Break

Beginning analysis with art: Making histograms II

The goal of Tuesday afternoon is to familiarize people with the development environment,
in the context of starting to analyze data (i.e. making histograms) in the art
setting.

slides

• session10.pdf
• session11.pdf
• session12.pdf

15:20 Break

Beginning analysis with art: Running multiple modules

The goal of Tuesday afternoon is to familiarize people with the development environment,
in the context of starting to analyze data (i.e. making histograms) in the art
setting.

slides

• session10.pdf
• session11.pdf
• session12.pdf

Wednesday, 5 August

Producers and data products: Creating a producer

The goal of Wednesday is to introduce people to writing producers, using good
software development practices: iterative code development, writing modular
code, and testing. We also introduce the creation of new data products.

slides

• Session13.pdf
• Session14.pdf
• Session15.pdf

09:50 Break

Producers and data products: Inventing a new data product

The goal of Wednesday is to introduce people to writing producers, using good
software development practices: iterative code development, writing modular
code, and testing. We also introduce the creation of new data products.

slides

• Session13.pdf
• Session14.pdf
• Session15.pdf

10:50 Break

Producers and data products: Controlling output

The goal of Wednesday is to introduce people to writing producers, using good
software development practices: iterative code development, writing modular
code, and testing. We also introduce the creation of new data products.

slides

• Session13.pdf
• Session14.pdf
• Session15.pdf

11:50 Lunch Break

Algorithm development: Introducing iterative algorithm development

slides

• session-16.pdf
• session-17.pdf
• session-18.pdf

13:50 Break

Algorithm development: Completing an algorithm and improving it

slides

• session-16.pdf
• session-17.pdf
• session-18.pdf

15:50 Break

Algorithm development: Summary

slides

• session-16.pdf
• session-17.pdf
• session-18.pdf

Thursday, 6 August

Advanced features of art: Some additional art facilities

The goal of Thursday morning is to gain more experience in modularity .

This includes the development of a set of algorithms (only need two) that
need to be split up between modules. This extends the previous day’s work.
Introduce people to some of the more advanced framework tools (association
collections, FindOne and FindMany smart query objects, services), as well as
the art command line.

slides

• additional-art-facilities.pdf
• creating-assns-and-using.pdf
• good_art_workflow.pdf
• good_art_workflow_solutions.pdf
• using-assns-smart-query-objects.pdf

09:50 Break

Advanced features of art: Using Assns and smart query objects

The goal of Thursday morning is to gain more experience in modularity .

This includes the development of a set of algorithms (only need two) that
need to be split up between modules. This extends the previous day’s work.
Introduce people to some of the more advanced framework tools (association
collections, FindOne and FindMany smart query objects, services), as well as
the art command line.

slides

• additional-art-facilities.pdf
• creating-assns-and-using.pdf
• good_art_workflow.pdf
• good_art_workflow_solutions.pdf
• using-assns-smart-query-objects.pdf

10:50 Break

Advanced features of art: Creating Assns

The goal of Thursday morning is to gain more experience in modularity .

This includes the development of a set of algorithms (only need two) that
need to be split up between modules. This extends the previous day’s work.
Introduce people to some of the more advanced framework tools (association
collections, FindOne and FindMany smart query objects, services), as well as
the art command line.

slides

• additional-art-facilities.pdf
• creating-assns-and-using.pdf
• good_art_workflow.pdf
• good_art_workflow_solutions.pdf
• using-assns-smart-query-objects.pdf

11:50 Lunch Break

Advanced features of art: Good art workflow

The goal of Thursday morning is to gain more experience in modularity .

This includes the development of a set of algorithms (only need two) that
need to be split up between modules. This extends the previous day’s work.
Introduce people to some of the more advanced framework tools (association
collections, FindOne and FindMany smart query objects, services), as well as
the art command line.

slides

• additional-art-facilities.pdf
• creating-assns-and-using.pdf
• good_art_workflow.pdf
• good_art_workflow_solutions.pdf
• using-assns-smart-query-objects.pdf

13:50 Break

Class suspended for NOvA Wine & Cheese

Debugging: Introduction to gdb

The goal of this session to introduce
the use of some software development tools: a debugger and Valgrind.

slides debugging.pdf gdb_refcard.pdf

Friday, 7 August

Introduction to LArSoft

This session will cover what is LArSoft and its specific data structures; we will
describe the structure and working of a LArTPC detector, and translation of
physics observables to data structures. Students will learn how to run a simple
LArSoft example.

slides larsoft-class-intro-2015-08-07.present.pdf

10:15 Break

Introduction to LArSoft code and work environment

This session will describe LArSoft code organization and different repositories.
The lecture will briefly cover mrb, cmake, gitflow, etc. Students will learn how
to get/build/test LArSoft code using mrb.

slides lecture2.pdf

11:45 Lunch Break

How to develop in LArSoft

In this session, students will learn how to make changes in the code, and how to
contribute new code. Students will follow instructions to work on an analysis
task in LArSoft environment.
Hands-on working session: Setup the build environment. Checkout the analysis
example code, modify, build, run tests.

slides lecture3.pdf

LArSoft algorithms and services

In this session, we will discuss the design principles of LArSoft.
We will demonstrate application of LArSoft design principles to actual code. we
will briefly describe LArSoft simulation, reconstruction and analysis algorithms.
We will introduce the services available in LArSoft focusing on the services
needed to complete the exercise.
Exercise to develop a simple new algorithm and module within LArSoft, build
and run it.

slides LArSoftAlgorithmsAndServices.pdf

15:00 Break

Using LArSoft for detector simulation and event generation

How to configure/describe detector to LArSoft, how to change existing detector
specific geometries and response functions. How do you make use of G4, GENIE
in LArSoft? How to use event display in LArSoft?
Wrap up and concluding presentation: Current directions and ideas for the
future.

slides larsoft-class-event-gen-and-sim.present.pdf

16:00 Break