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Re: Object Graphics Book. [message #31976 is a reply to message #31973]

Wed, 04 September 2002 18:35

Andrew Cool
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Registered: January 1996

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savoie.no.spam.at.all.@nsidc.org wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm looking for feedback on Ronn Kling's new book _Power Graphics with IDL_.
> I've been to the web site, and looked at the table of contents, but I'm just
> a bit hesitant to drop the money with out touching the product.
>
> I'd really like to hear how it improved or didn't improve your understanding
> of object graphics. So far I've just plugged away using _Objects & Object
> Graphics_. Which is so... Let's just say there is no author listed.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Matt Savoie
> National Snow and Ice Data Center
> Boulder, CO

Hi Matt,

Ronn's book is great for OG beginners like me. It's not a dry text book
that launches into Object jargon with the assumption that you already
have a
background or understanding of the subject. Instead Ronn goes to some
effort
to congenially explain the fundamentals of OG, and how it's implemented
in
IDL, warts 'n' all.

I didn't pay for my copy (I won Ronn's competition to name the book),
but having
been through the book, I will be ordering two copies for the IDL crowd
at work.

Andrew

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