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You should become familiar with ROOT. It is an object-oriented data analysis framework.

If you will be new to the ROOT data analysis package

See it's very complete User's Guide (the most important chapters are those on Histograms and trees)
- https://root.cern.ch/root/htmldoc/guides/users-guide/ROOTUsersGuide.html#histograms

This is worth looking over, especially for anyone who is new to ROOT.

The ROOT Primer is located at
- https://root.cern.ch/root/htmldoc/guides/primer/ROOTPrimer.html
Most of the time you'll be working on the servers as there is no direct Windows release of the most up-to-date version. But you can use Windows 5.34.36 on Windows from https://root.cern.ch/content/release-53436 (And indeed we usually use root 5.34 on the servers anyway).

Everyone should become familiar with linux

Simple tutorials which cover the basics of UNIX/Linux commands
- http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/

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 * The ROOT Primer is located at
 **  https://root.cern.ch/root/htmldoc/guides/primer/ROOTPrimer.html
-* Most of the time you'll be working on the servers as there is no direct Windows release of the most up-to-date version But you can use Windows 5.34.36 on Windows from https://root.cern.ch/content/release-53436 (And indeed we usually use root 5.34 on the servers anyway).
+* Most of the time you'll be working on the servers as there is no direct Windows release of the most up-to-date version.  But you can use Windows 5.34.36 on Windows from https://root.cern.ch/content/release-53436 (And indeed we usually use root 5.34 on the servers anyway).
 ==UNIX / Linux Tutorial==