Re: New ROOT documentation available

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Thu Jul 29 1999 - 15:51:23 MEST


Congratulations to the FermiLab team (Suzanne, Philippe, Peter) for
producing this documentation. I am sure that this material will be very
helpfull to Root newcomers and many experienced users will also find
several
chapters useful.

I have added a link to the FermiLab URL from the Root Web site.

Rene Brun

Suzanne Panacek wrote:
> 
> Since the US HENP ROOT Users Workshop at Fermilab in March, we have been
> working on documentation to introduce ROOT.  We now published two sets
> of documents, a "Getting Started with ROOT" guide and an "Introduction to
> ROOT" course. Both are now available from the Web at:
> http://www-pat.fnal.gov/root/
> 
> "Introduction to ROOT" is a hands-on class we give at Fermilab. It lasts
> about three hours and gets you started with ROOT quickly. The website has
> the slides, the exercises, and the examples. It has everything you need to
> learn the basics and/or teach the course.
> 
> "Getting Started with ROOT" is an excellent, short guide written by Elaine
> Lyons to get you started with ROOT. It is more verbose than the slides from
> the class and covers much of the same and some additional material.
> 
> If you plan to use our material to organize a course, please let us know.
> 
> We are planning a second class some time in the fall that will cover the
> more advanced features of ROOT such as I/O and Trees.
> 
> Comments and questions are always welcome and should be sent to
> about-root@fnal.gov.
> 
> Philippe Canal (pcanal@fnal.gov)
> Suzanne Panacek (spanacek@fnal.gov)
> Peter Malzacher (malzache@fnal.gov)



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