Evaluating Analysis Description Language Concept as a First Introduction to Analysis in Particle Physics

The fifth edition of the 'Computing Applications in Particle Physics' school was held on 3-7 February 2020, at Istanbul University, Turkey. This particular edition focused on the processing of the (pseudo) data from the Large Hadron Collider collisions using an Analysis Description Language, namely CutLang. 24 undergraduate and 6 graduate students were initiated to collider data analysis during the school. After 3 days of lectures and exercises, the students were grouped into teams of 3 or 4 and each team was assigned a public analysis note from ATLAS or CMS experiments. After 1.5 days of independent study, each team was able to reproduce the assigned analysis using CutLang.