## Goals and tasks

The goals and tasks of this paper are

- To teach you about the most basic neutron scattering
- To let you understand some of the typical components in a neutron scattering instrument
- To teach you basic usage of the McStas neutron simulation package
- To let you create your first McStas instruments, a two axis diffractometer and a triple axis spectrometer
- To teach you how to modify your instrument for a specific task
- To help you learn to debug instruments
- To help you aquire and analyze data from McStas simulations