# README

**Last update**: 20250731

This webpage contains the lecturing material for the course PH8124, 'Scientific computing in high-energy physics', offered in SS2025.

The material covered in the previous year is at [SS2024](https://abilandz.gitbook.io/ss2024) (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](https://app.srv.nat.tum.de/mhb/description?id=14712), and at the following public [link](https://academics.nat.tum.de/org/mh/details/mod/PH8124/).

For **ROOT**, the official documentation is used:

* Overview of all tutorials: <https://root.cern/manual/>
* Primer (for beginners): <https://root.cern/primer/> (or [pdf](https://cernbox.cern.ch/index.php/s/bmbmbqUMA1keZCH) version)
* Users Guide (last update 2018, not maintained anymore): [html](https://root.cern.ch/root/htmldoc/guides/users-guide/ROOTUsersGuide.html) or [pdf](https://cernbox.cern.ch/index.php/s/N4k9AQ8LtCFWQIc) version


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