The C++ Path

Congratulations on choosing to work with C++. It’s obviously better than The Python Path or The RDataframe Path. 1

There are a lot of topics listed below. Don’t let that discourage you. Many of the sections below are quite short. 2 Again, the important thing is for you to learn something from doing what exercises you can in the time we have.

• Differences between C++ and Python
• Walkthrough: A simple analysis using the Draw command
• Pointers: A too-short explanation (for those who don’t know C++ or C)
• Walkthrough: A simple analysis using the Draw command, part 2
• Walkthrough: Using C++ to analyze a Tree
• Walkthrough: Running the Analyze macro
• Walkthrough: Making a histogram with Analyze
• Exercise 2: Add error bars to a histogram
• Exercise 3: Drawing two histograms in the same loop
• Exercise 4: Display fit parameters
• Exercise 5: Scatterplots
• Walkthrough: Calculate our own variables
• Exercise 6: Plot a derived variable
• Exercise 7: Trigonometric functions
• Walkthrough: Apply a cut
• Exercise 8: Pick a physics cut
• Exercise 9: A little more physics
• Exercise 10: Write histograms to a file
• Exercise 11: A stand-alone program (optional)

Footnotes

1

For one thing, the xkcd cartoons are funnier.

2

Many of the sections don’t have any footnotes or cartoons at all, just to make them shorter.