| Re: Who have an electrical book of IDL in English? [message #52179 is a reply to message #52096] |
Wed, 17 January 2007 16:01   |
Braedley
Messages: 57
Registered: September 2006
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As far as I'm concerned, the online is useful when you know there's a
function or procedure that does what you want, but you don't know the
name of the function or the calling sequence, or if you're interested
about some keywords to some of your procedure calls. As an example,
XLOADCT wouldn't teach you much about colour systems in IDL. I don't
think any single section in the help file can teach you as much about
colour as the chapters in David's books, or the section devoted to
colour on his web page. No, the help files are great for reference,
but the learning curve with them are too steep to be useful as the only
source for beginners.
Braedley
On Jan 11, 10:25 pm, tia...@gmail.com wrote:
> I think you should really learn the most things from IDL's online help
> documents. They are designed for beginners, with a lot of examples. Try
> them, and you will learn a lot.
>
> Best,
> Tian
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> zhuang...@gmail.com wrote:
>> The help document of IDL 6.3 is not suitable for learning form scratch,
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>> I need an English book step by step, but in my country I can't find
>> Who can send me an electrical edition , or give me an address to
>> download?
>
>> Thanks for your help.
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