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Re: Cost of student version of IDL [message #81271 is a reply to message #80073]

Sun, 02 September 2012 07:16

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Sergey Anfinogentov
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среда, 9 мая 2012 г., 0:21:36 UTC+9 пользователь Kenneth P. Bowman написал:
> I am going back into the classroom next fall to teach IDL to undergraduates
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> after spending the last few years as department head. The course alternates
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> 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
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> my book and working IDL examples in order to create more time in class to work
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> with students individually.
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> To accomplish this, students need to have a copy of IDL on their personal
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> computers. I looked at the Exelis website yesterday and found that the student
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> edition of IDL is $89 ($149 with the IMSL library). That didn't seem too bad
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> until I realized that that price is for a 1-year license! So a sophomore taking
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> my course would need to pay at least $270 to keep a working IDL license until
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> graduation. Knowing students as I do, most will simply let their licenses
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> lapse.
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> For reference, my IDL textbook is $42 on Amazon. When my text was first
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> 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
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> 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
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> with no time limit. They require proof of enrollment to move the license to a
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> 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
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> student pricing make sense to anyone?
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> Has anyone worked out better ways to get students access to IDL?
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> Ken Bowman

Have You tried GDL (gnu data language)? This is a free idl language interpreter.

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		Cost of student version of IDL By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Tue, 08 May 2012 08:21
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