| Re: Who have an electrical book of IDL in English? [message #52211 is a reply to message #52096] |
Fri, 12 January 2007 02:16   |
zhuangbao@gmail.com
Messages: 12
Registered: January 2007
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Thanks for your help, I have a Chinese tutorial of IDL now, but it's
not deep enough.
After reading the tutorial and practising the codes in it, I will read
the online help
to gain further knowledge about IDL. I am now using emacs idlwave-mode
to write
my code, it's excellent, but the function names in my editor are not
highlighted, perhaps
it is not the problem of idlwave-mode, but the problem of
font-lock-mode, do you have the
same problem? I wish your reply.
By the way, your website is really helpful.
Thanks again.
David Fanning wrote:
> tianyf@gmail.com writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> I don't doubt you will learn a lot. Whether that's the
> *best* way to learn IDL or not, I'm not so sure. I know
> when I was first learning IDL I had to read the User's
> Guide front to back twice before I could figure out how
> to draw a line plot. Things have improved a lot since
> then, but not so much "use the on-line help" would be
> my first recommendation for learning to write IDL programs. :-)
>
> That said, I don't know how anyone writes IDL programs
> without having a dual-screen monitor so that the on-line
> help can be up there simultaneously with the IDLDE.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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