| Re: Cost of student version of IDL [message #80164 is a reply to message #80070] |
Sun, 13 May 2012 23:47  |
d.poreh
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On Tuesday, May 8, 2012 7:54:32 PM UTC+2, dave poreh wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 8, 2012 8:21:36 AM UTC-7, Kenneth P. Bowman wrote:
>> I am going back into the classroom next fall to teach IDL to undergraduates
>> after spending the last few years as department head. The course alternates
>> between IDL and Matlab, and we have talked about adding a Python version section.
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>> I am working on ways to get students to spend more time outside of class reading
>> my book and working IDL examples in order to create more time in class to work
>> with students individually.
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>> To accomplish this, students need to have a copy of IDL on their personal
>> computers. I looked at the Exelis website yesterday and found that the student
>> edition of IDL is $89 ($149 with the IMSL library). That didn't seem too bad
>> until I realized that that price is for a 1-year license! So a sophomore taking
>> my course would need to pay at least $270 to keep a working IDL license until
>> graduation. Knowing students as I do, most will simply let their licenses
>> lapse.
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>> For reference, my IDL textbook is $42 on Amazon. When my text was first
>> released (2006), a non-expiring student IDL license was $49.
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>> We make IDL available in our labs, but the inconvenience of coming to the campus
>> guarantees that students will only use IDL when they *have* to.
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>> For comparison, I see that Mathworks charges $99 for a student Matlab license
>> with no time limit. They require proof of enrollment to move the license to a
>> new machine after 4 years, and they charge for upgrades.
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>> In the current environment (with free alternatives like Python), does the IDL
>> student pricing make sense to anyone?
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>> Has anyone worked out better ways to get students access to IDL?
>>
>> Ken Bowman
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> I have a question: is this version (student version) for research too? I mean could we do the graphs for publications?
No body knows if you could do publications with the student version or not?
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