# Goals of the course

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Valentin Volkl, Juraj Smiesko
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* Understand what we'll be doing, and why we'll be doing it.
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The FCC Tutorials are all about getting you the knowledge and tools you need to
do your studies.

We want this course to give you the confidence to be able to start by yourself,
to understand what the code, you'll be writing, does and why you're writing it,
and to teach others how to do the same.
Each lesson follows on the previous one, but each can also serve as a standalone
reference when you need to revisit a particular topic.

We'll be looking at:

* How data flows through the FCC processing chain, what software is involved,
  and how the data is stored;
* How the data flow is different for simulated (Monte Carlo) events;
* Where the data ends up, how it's indexed, and how you can find and access the
  data you need;
* How to work with events in the EDM4hep data format and eventually convert it
  to ROOT ntuples; and
* How to add more variables to the ntuples.

We'll also cover how to efficiently run software locally and on the Batch System
using HTCondor, as well as how to ask good questions when you're stuck and where
to ask them.

The lessons will start with a lot of explaining, but then we'll get in to the
hands-on stuff.

These lessons have been put together over the years by a lot of people who are
passionate about good software practices and demystifying code.
Over the course of 2015, the first version of these lessons have been written on
[GitHub][github], a code sharing and collaboration website. You can find the
source code of these lessons in the [HEP-FCC/fcc-tutorials][fcc-tutorials]
repository, and __you__ can contribute!

Please [submit an issue][fcc-tutorials-issues] if you spot a mistake or you
think something isn't clear enough, or you can
[make the changes yourself](contributing-lesson) and open a pull request.

If you're not already familiar with git, you could check out the HSF
[Analysis essentials][analysis-essentials] course.

So, enough with the introduction, let's dive in!


[github]: https://github.com/
[fcc-tutorials]: https://github.com/hep-fcc/fcc-tutorials/
[fcc-tutorials-issues]: https://github.com/hep-fcc/fcc-tutorials/issues/
[analysis-essentials]: https://hsf-training.github.io/analysis-essentials/