| IDL Programming Course Announcement [message #10140] |
Tue, 14 October 1997 00:00 |
davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996
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Hi Folks,
Many of you have asked me about IDL programming courses and
in particular where and when I teach them. Most of the
courses I teach are on-site courses and are closed to the
public.
But I wanted to let you know about a four-day public course
I will be teaching in Columbia, Maryland from November 18th
to 21st. This will be an IDL Programming Course and I will
be introducing the participants to some new ideas I have
about writing structured IDL programs. You can obtain more
information about the course or register for it by visiting
my web page at:
http://www.dfanning.com/
In the nearly six years that I have been teaching people
to write IDL programs, I have noticed that many of us do
not have a very good idea of what constitutes a "good" IDL
program. Many of our programs work, but they are not elegant,
and making changes to them (as we inevitably must) can be
difficult and painful.
So I have been thinking about rules of thumb or heuristics
for writing "good" IDL programs. To me this means a program
that works the same on 8-bit or 24-bit displays, can be
displayed in a resizeable graphics window, comes with a
graphical user interface, but can also be used at the IDL
command line, can be easily made into GIF, TIFF, JPEG, and
PostScript files, and can be easily maintained and extended.
In fact, well written programs should constitute a library
of programs that can be used together in various combinations
to produce ever more sophisticated applications. Those of
you who have been good enough to download and use many of
the programs on my web page have seen me working out these
ideas over the course of the past six months or so.
This object-oriented or modular approach to programming
will have you writing better programs that can be shared
more easily with your colleagues. I have been testing this
new material the past month on courses in Australia and
England and I am VERY excited by the results.
Please let me know if you or one of your colleagues is
interested in attending this course. (If you know of
someone who might be interested in this course, please
pass the information along to them or let me know and
I will contact them with more information.) The course
is strictly limited to 14 people, with each person
having their own PC running Windows 95.
Please come join me for a few coyote stories and
some outstanding IDL programming information.
Best Regards,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting
E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
Phone: 970-221-0438
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
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