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Re: Teaching material [message #28221]

Wed, 28 November 2001 10:15

Wayne Landsman
Messages: 117
Registered: January 1997

Senior Member

Markus Reichstein wrote:

> Dear all,
> it is decided, that I will give an internal course about the basics of
> IDL and PV-WAVE starting next week (spontaneous group decision...).
> Now I am wondering if there is some didactical material (e.g. PPT
> Presentation, explaining array handling etc., a well-tested
> time-schedule for a course with programming beginners ...) around that
> anyone would share with me

I know of two instructional college courses about IDL taught by
astronomers with online notes and exercises. (Presumably at a beginning
level, most of the material can apply to fields besides astronomy.)
Robert O'Connell (U. of Virginia) has written a guide to IDL for
Astronomers
( http://www.astro.virginia.edu/class/oconnell/astr511/IDLguid e.html)
including exercises for class work.
(
http://www.astro.virginia.edu/class/oconnell/astr511/IDLexer cises/IDL-Exercises-I.html
)
Carl Heiles (UC Berkeley) has written a set of postscript file tutorials
on "Learning IDL
for Astronomy" (
http://www.ugastro.berkeley.edu/tutorials/tutorials.html)

There is also a course on "Programming for Imaging Science" at the
Rochester Institute of Technology http://www.cis.rit.edu/class/simg211/
which is an introduction to Unix and IDL.

--Wayne Landsman landsman@mpb.gsfc.nasa.gov

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Re: Teaching material [message #28222 is a reply to message #28221]

Wed, 28 November 2001 10:06

R.Bauer
Messages: 1424
Registered: November 1998

Senior Member

Markus Reichstein wrote:
>
> Dear all,
> it is decided, that I will give an internal course about the basics of
> IDL and PV-WAVE starting next week (spontaneous group decision...).
> Now I am wondering if there is some didactical material (e.g. PPT
> Presentation, explaining array handling etc., a well-tested
> time-schedule for a course with programming beginners ...) around that
> anyone would share with me.
>
> Thanks so much,
> Markus

Dear Markus,

how much days did your course take? If it's only a day
you should show the idl basics book. This is for the
most beginners enough. If it is well explained
a lot of idl functionality is shown.

regards

Reimar

--
Reimar Bauer

Institut fuer Stratosphaerische Chemie (ICG-1)
Forschungszentrum Juelich
email: R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/
============================================================ ======
a IDL library at ForschungsZentrum Juelich
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/idl_icglib/idl_lib_intro.h tml

http://www.fz-juelich.de/zb/text/publikation/juel3786.html
============================================================ ======

read something about linux / windows
http://www.suse.de/de/news/hotnews/MS.html

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Re: Teaching material [message #28224 is a reply to message #28222]

Wed, 28 November 2001 09:59

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Pavel A. Romashkin (pavel.romashkin@noaa.gov) writes:

> I am afraid this is what my poster is gonna look like at AGU in San
> Francisco in a week.

Be sure to put little smilely faces after your
conclusions. :-)

Cheers,

David

--
David W. Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting
Phone: 970-221-0438, E-mail: david@dfanning.com
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155

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Re: Teaching material [message #28225 is a reply to message #28224]

Wed, 28 November 2001 09:46

Pavel A. Romashkin
Messages: 531
Registered: November 2000

Senior Member

David Fanning wrote:
>
> Oh, heck, I do it all the time. Piece of cake.
> A white board and a magic marker and I'm set. :-)

I am afraid this is what my poster is gonna look like at AGU in San
Francisco in a week. Given the time I spend reading this NG. But it is
damn addictive :(

Pavel

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Re: Teaching material [message #28227 is a reply to message #28225]

Wed, 28 November 2001 09:37

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Pavel A. Romashkin (pavel.romashkin@noaa.gov) writes:

> I wish I had your courage to agree to teach a course next week having no
> didactical materials ready :(

Oh, heck, I do it all the time. Piece of cake.
A white board and a magic marker and I'm set. :-)

Cheers,

David

--
David W. Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting
Phone: 970-221-0438, E-mail: david@dfanning.com
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155

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Re: Teaching material [message #28228 is a reply to message #28227]

Wed, 28 November 2001 09:21

Pavel A. Romashkin
Messages: 531
Registered: November 2000

Senior Member

I wish I had your courage to agree to teach a course next week having no
didactical materials ready :(
I am such a pansy.
Pavel

Markus Reichstein wrote:
>
> Dear all,
> it is decided, that I will give an internal course about the basics of
> IDL and PV-WAVE starting next week (spontaneous group decision...).
> Now I am wondering if there is some didactical material (e.g. PPT
> Presentation, explaining array handling etc., a well-tested
> time-schedule for a course with programming beginners ...) around that
> anyone would share with me.
>
> Thanks so much,
> Markus

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Re: Teaching material [message #28305 is a reply to message #28221]

Wed, 28 November 2001 23:12

markus.reichstein
Messages: 4
Registered: September 2001

Junior Member

All,
Thanks so much for all your replies. Now with these nice tutorials
plus David's book in my hand I am quite optimistic :-). For those who
asked: It's about four afternoons with 3 hours = 12 hours. Most
participants do not know programming. So I'll see how far I can get.

Bye,
Markus

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