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This is a page is under development: please do not use! Starting page for the June 2019 Mu2e Tutorials

Introduction

Place holder for introduction

Before your arrive in Minnesota

Tell people what to do before they travel to Minnesota: get accounts, log in to mu2egpvm and setup .bashrc etc ..  Install software on their laptop ..

Prerequisites

If you understand the information below you should find the tutorials fairly straightforward. If you are learning this material as you go along, it will take longer to work through the tutorials.  That's OK.  Take your time and learn what you need to be effective in Mu2e.

Sessions

Agenda

Exercises

List of exercises (or links to exercises) ...

Instructions for Session Leaders

Please read all of the instructions below before starting to plan your session!

An important goal for this tutorial is that the attendees will spend most of their time working on exercises, not listening to us talk. We expect that the people attending this tutorial will have a broad spectrum of computing skills, HEP experience and familiarity with Mu2e. To address this we would like each session to contain many exercises that we can order from beginner level to advanced level. We do not expect every attendee to do every exercise in the allotted time; instead we expect that each attendee will decide to work on the exercises that make sense given their prior experience and their interests. We expect that many people will get started on exercises during the tutorial day and will complete more exercises at a later date.

We hope that most sessions will fit into the following plan; the only exception to this is the first session, which is a lecture overview.

Most tutorial sessions will be 1 hour long
Each session will have a page on this wiki. Rob and Dave will tell you where to find the page for your session.
At the tutorial, each session leader will give a short introductory presentation that gives an overview of the ideas introduced by the exercises. Keeping it under 5 minutes is great and under 10 minutes is OK.
This introductory information should also be present near the top of the wiki page. If you can give the presentation using the wiki, that's better than using slides.
The introductory material should contain a list of prerequisites and co-requisites, which may include other tutorials or suggested reading.
Following the presentation, the session leader will direct the students to a series of exercises that they can work on.
The instructions for the exercises should be on the wiki page for the session.
The instructions should contain links to supporting and/or reference material that the attendees will find useful.
While the attendees are working on the exercises, the session leaders and helpers will circulate among the attendees to answer questions.
If a question comes up frequently the session leader or designate can give a short presentation about that question.
In some sessions, it might make sense for the session leader to devote that last 5 or 10 minutes of the session to presenting his/her answer to some of the exercises.
To the extent possible, the session leaders should design wiki pages and exercises so that people can work at their own pace both during and after the tutorial day.
When planning your time budget, remember that it may take 5 to 10 minutes for people to get started on the first exercise.

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 == Instructions for Session Leaders ==
 Please read all of the instructions below before starting to plan your session!
-A session leaders job is to help tutorial attendees execute a series of simple exercises that you have
-prepared in advance.  Each session will have it's on wiki page, which will be linked to the main tutorial
-page.  The goals of the session should be clearly defined at the top of this page; for instance
-'In this Tutorial you will learn how to analyze TTree data produced by TrkAna'.
-The prerequisites for your session should be clearly defined at the top of the session.  This may
-include other tutorials the attendees should have completed, any required reading and any required downloads.
-wiki page
+An important goal for this tutorial is that the attendees will spend most of their time working on exercises, not listening to us talk.
-: Each exercise should be described by a corresponding section on your tutorial
+We expect that the people attending this tutorial will have a broad spectrum of computing skills, HEP experience and familiarity with Mu2e. To address this we would like each session to contain many exercises that we can order from beginner level to advanced level.  We do not expect every attendee to do every exercise in the allotted time; instead we expect that each attendee will decide to work on the exercises that make sense given their prior experience and their interests.  We expect that many people will get started on exercises during the tutorial day and will complete more exercises at a later date.
-: Each tutorial session will be approximately 1 hour long
-:: You should assume setup and checking prerequisites will take the first 5-10 minutes
+We hope that most sessions will fit into the following plan; the only exception to this is the first session, which is a lecture overview.
-::   Assume at least 5
-The session time should be dominated by time
-spent actually doing things
+* Most tutorial sessions will be 1 hour long
+* Each session will have a page on this wiki.  Rob and Dave will tell you where to find the page for your session.
+* At the tutorial, each session leader will give a short introductory presentation that gives an overview of the ideas introduced by the exercises.  Keeping it under 5 minutes is great and under 10 minutes is OK.
+* This introductory information should also be present near the top of the wiki page.   If you can give the presentation using the wiki, that's better than using slides.
+* The introductory material should contain a list of prerequisites and co-requisites, which may include other tutorials or suggested reading.
+* Following the presentation, the session leader will direct the students to a series of exercises that they can work on.
+* The instructions for the exercises should be on the wiki page for the session.
+* The instructions should contain links to supporting and/or reference material that the attendees will find useful.
+* While the attendees are working on the exercises, the session leaders and helpers will circulate among the attendees to answer questions.
+* If a question comes up frequently the session leader or designate can give a short presentation about that question.
+* In some sessions, it might make sense for the session leader to devote that last 5 or 10 minutes of the session to presenting his/her answer to some of the exercises.
+* To the extent possible, the session leaders should design wiki pages and exercises so that people can work at their own pace both during and after the tutorial day.
+* When planning your time budget, remember that it may take 5 to 10 minutes for people to get started on the first exercise.