Dear bfys friends,

The mail below in dutch states that there are still a number of places available in the (very good) C++ course of Wouter. This message is primarily aimed at PhD students. If you think that you might profit from the course, and it is a worthwile investement of your time, please consider it.

Cheers, - Marcel

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wouter Verkerke verkerke@nikhef.nl Date: 9 November 2011 16:10 Subject: C++ cursus voor AIOS To: Marcel Merk i93@nikhef.nl Cc: Joan Berger jberger@nikhef.nl

Hoi Marcel

Ik geef over een paar weken een C++ cursus voor AIOs (zoals je al weet)

Vanuit LHCb hebben zich gemeld

Suvayu Ali ali.suvayu@nikhef.nl B-Physics Pieter David pdavid@nikhef.nl B-Physics Daan van Eijk dveijk@nikhef.nl B-Physics Chiara Farinelli farinel@nikhef.nl B-Physics Panagiotis Tsopelas ptsopel@nikhef.nl B-Physics

Er is nog een aantal plaatsen beschikbaar in de cursus, dus als er andere AIOs in de LHCb groep zijn, waarvan je denkt dat het nuttig is om ze deze cursus te laten volgen, dan is het nog mogelijk deze op te geven.

Laat deze studenten dan contact met Joan opnemen voor het einde van deze week

(Let wel dat van studenten die meedoen wordt verwacht dat ze in principe de gehele cursus volgen - de cursus is intensief en de praktijk leert dat het overslaan van meerdere modules al vrij snel tot afhaken leidt)

Groeten, Wouter

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:42:37 +0100 From: Joan Berger jberger@nikhef.nl To: promovendi@nikhef.nl Cc: Wouter Verkerke verkerke@nikhef.nl Subject: C++ course November 28th - December 9th 2011

Dear all

On Nov 28 the annual course on C++ and object oriented programming targeted to Nikhef PhD students will start. The course schedule is as follows

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Mon Nov 28 9am - 5pm - Introduction to Unix Shell programming and batch systems

Wed Nov 30 9am - 5pm - C++ Parts 1-2 Basics, files & namespaces

Thu Dec 1 1pm - 5pm - C++ Part 3a Writing C++ Classes - basics (HALF DAY) Fri Dec 2 9am - 1pm - C++ Part 3b Writing C++ Classes - resource management (HALF DAY)

---- (sinterklaas weekend)

Mon Dec 5 9am - 5pm - C++ Parts 4-5 OO Analysis & Design 1: Composition, IO basics

Wed Dec 7 9am - 5pm - C++ Parts 6-7 Templates and the Standard Template Library

Thu Dec 8 1pm - 5pm - C++ Part 8 OO Analysis and & Design 2: Polymorphism and inheritance (HALF DAY) Fri Dec 9 9am - 1pm - C++ Part 9 Exception handling (HALF DAY)

--- (nikhef annual meeting in following week)

and will be given in room H239 at NIKHEF. Each half-day course module consist of a ~30-40 minute lecture introducing the subject of the module, followed by 3 hours of hands-on training with pedagogical coding exercises that will familiarize you with the subject. All day assistence is available to help you work on your coding exercises efficiently, and to answer any (general) C++ programming questions that may arise.

*** As knowledge of C++ is nowadays essential for all (experimental) HEP students, *** *** this course is strongly recommended to all 1st and 2nd year PhD students. ***

PhD students in later years that are interested in following this course are also welcome. [ If you have already taken the UvA C++ course as master student, there is no need to take this one. ]

To sign up for this course send a mail to Joan Berger on Tuesday Nov 8 the latest. Participants of the course are expected to be present for the full duration of the course. Please note that capacity is limited.

Wouter