PH8124

Introduction

Last update: 20260501

This webpage contains the lecturing material for the course PH8124, ‘Scientific computing in high-energy physics’, offered in SS2026.

The material covered in the previous year is at SS2025 (the current semester is based on it, only minor modifications are foreseen).

The formal course description can be found at the TUM website at the following internal link, and at the following public link.

For ROOT, the official documentation is used:

• Overview of all tutorials: https://root.cern/manual/

• Primer (for beginners): https://root.cern/primer/ (or pdf version)

• Users Guide (last update 2018, not maintained anymore): html or pdf version

Lectures, homeworks and final project

• Lecture 1: Trivia
• Lecture 2: Commands and variables
• Lecture 3: Linux file system. Positional parameters. Your first Linux/Bash command. Command precedence
• Lecture 4: Loops and few other thingies
• Lecture 5: Command substitution. Input/Output (I/O). Conditional statements
• Lecture 6: String manipulation. Arrays. Pipes. sed, awk and grep
• Lecture 7: Escaping. Quotes. Handling processes and jobs
• Lecture 8: Bash fancy features
• Lecture 9: Real-life examples
• Lecture 10: ROOT - getting started
• Lecture 11: ROOT - basic classes (Part 1/2)
• Lecture 12: ROOT - basic classes (Part 2/2)
• Homeworks
  • Homework 1: Using shell aliases as your simplest commands
  • Homework 2: User-made executables as Linux/Bash commands
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• Final Project