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Re: How to learn IDL? [message #3460 is a reply to message #3453]

Wed, 01 February 1995 05:44

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From: chris@mercury.sfsu.edu (Christopher McCarthy)
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Subject: Re: How to learn IDL?
Date: 1 Feb 1995 08:44:13 GMT
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David Landsberger (berger@cao-pc.rockefeller.edu) wrote:
: I have been asked to learn how to program in IDL for the PC.
: How do I begin to do this. I am currently a C programmer and

If you can program in C you can learn IDL no problem, probably in
an afternoon. It may take you a while to get used to not wasting
time declaring variables, worrying about pointers, etc. But
you should find it easy. My friend who knows C in one week got
to the level in IDL programming that took me several months.

We have a book called, I think, _Introduction to Programming in
IDL_ It is just a small pamplet which came w/ the older edition
of IDL (3.0). It gave you some things to play with, convolving
a function w/ a filter, etc. For starters, well give yourself
a project. EG write a program which lets the user input
two matricies, then multiply them. (Hint: If this takes your more
than about 6 lines for the entire program you're doing something
wrong.)

Good luck.

-chris

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		Re: How to learn IDL? By: legler on Wed, 01 February 1995 05:23
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		Re: How to learn IDL? By: chris on Wed, 01 February 1995 00:44
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