5th HEP C++ Course - Mentors Preparatory Meeting

Thursday 6 Oct 2022, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

2/1-034 (CERN)

1 Overview of the course content

Speakers: Bernhard Manfred Gruber (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE)), Sebastien Ponce (CERN), Stephan Hageboeck (CERN)

Course timetable

Latest course slides

Note that the course slides are for the full C++ course. It's the first time we run the advanced course, so we will only do a subset of the content

• A recap of chapter 2 language basics
• A recap of chapter 3 Object orientation
• Chapter 4 almost completely
• Chapter 6: All the tools that we manage to fit in the second day.
• Chapter 7 concurrency and whatever fits in the last day from chapter 5 expert C++

 

2 Overview of exercises

Speakers: Bernhard Manfred Gruber (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE)), Sebastien Ponce (CERN), Stephan Hageboeck (CERN)

Exercise README

HSF C++ Course cheat sheet

Schedule for the exercise sessions

• For returning mentors: Check the new readme linked from the agenda.
• We will offer both on-site and zoom exercise sessions. About 40 on site, and 60 online.

Job of the mentors:

• Compile and run the hello exercise to figure out if your setup is compatible. Students will do this on the first day as well to check their setup.
  • C++20 is optional, 17 is recommended
• Try to do the exercises of the day where you are teaching. If something is unclear, we welcome a PR.
•  We have more exercises than the students will be able to finish. That's not a problem, students can do it at home. Please let the students know about this.
• For each exercise, there is a cheat sheet. It tries to explain what is expected of the students and how you arrive at the solution.
• Engage with the students!
  • Ask them to give a thumbs up on zoom when they are finished with a certain exercise.
  • Ask them to share the screen and show how they solved it when about >~ 1/2 of the class finished a certain part.
  • Discuss a bit with them why a certain solution works

3 Discussion on internal organization

Speakers: Bernhard Manfred Gruber (Technische Universitaet Dresden (DE)), Sebastien Ponce (CERN), Stefan Roiser (CERN), Stephan Hageboeck (CERN)

20221006-5thHepCppCourse-MentorsPrep.pdf

• Managed to ask for a few more mentors. Thanks to all the mentors!