Welcome to the ATLAS Software Documentation pages.
Here you can find tutorials and guides written and reviewed by experts.
New to ATLAS?
Have you just joined ATLAS and want to know more about the software? These links will help you to get started:
Have you just joined ATLAS and want to know more about the software? These links will help you to get started:
- Have a look at the Introduction to the ATLAS software
- Read about Athena releases
- Run the AthenaExamples to familiarise yourself with Athena
Need help getting started with physics analysis software?
Follow the analysis tutorial
Follow the analysis tutorial
Starting work on ATLAS software?
Are you beginning an ATLAS software task? Read the introductory links above and then:
Are you beginning an ATLAS software task? Read the introductory links above and then:
- read about Athena nightly builds
- follow the Git workflow tutorial
Experienced developer?
These links may be helpful:
Links to be added
These links may be helpful:
Links to be added
These pages contained structured Software documentation, and exist in addition to the twiki [ATLAS members only], and are intended to be more authoritative.
For comments and suggestions, please feel free to use the issue tracker.
If you want to update or modify the content yourself, please feel free to follow the contribution guide.
Tutorials vs Guides vs Manuals
The following pages include tutorials, guides and manuals here are some definitions to help you distinguish between these three types of documentation:
- A Tutorial is a set of step-by-step instructions (exercises, try-this-try-that, etc). A tutorial can also be a sub-section of a guide.
- Guides are more conceptual description of how things work.
- Manuals are detailed descriptions of every command-line option for a utility or every function in a module etc.