The Basics

With the preliminaries out of the way, let’s start working with ROOT.

• Walkthrough: Starting ROOT
• Walkthrough: Plotting a function
• Exercise 1: Detective work
• Walkthrough: Working with Histograms
• Walkthrough: Saving and printing your work
• Walkthrough: The ROOT browser
• Walkthrough: Fitting to a Gaussian distribution
• Walkthrough: Fitting to a user-defined function
• Walkthrough: Saving your work, part 2
• Example experiment n-tuple
• Using the Treeviewer

These sections emphasize working with ROOT on the command line, along with its built-in graphics tools. If you’re used to Jupyter or an IDE, you may be anxious to move on to The Notebook Server.

My advice: Don’t rush through the above sections. There are tools within basic ROOT, such as interactive plot editing, that are not available through a web browser.