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  title info:
    title: Practical IDL programming
    sub title: creating effective data analysis and visualization applications
  name:
    name part: Gumley, Liam E. (Liam Edward)
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    place:
      place term: San Diego
    publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xx, 508 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Increasingly, scientists and engineers must quickly and efficiently analyze and visualize extremely large sets of data. Interactive Data Language, IDL, was designed to address just this need. A popular data analysis and visualization programming environment, IDL is used worldwide by scientists and engineers in fields as diverse as the physical sciences, medical physics, and engineering test and analysis. In Practical IDL Programming, Liam E. Gumley provides a solid foundation in the fundamentals of procedural programming in IDL. He presents concise information on how to develop IDL programmers that are well structured, reliable, and efficient. The example programs in the book demonstrate key concepts and provide functionality that can be applied immediately. In addition, the book offers readers practical tips and advice on IDL programming, which they would otherwise discover only after years of experience. While only modest prior programming experience is assumed, readers with experience in any procedural language will quickly translate their skills to IDL, learning the best programming practices for this new environment. Scientists, engineers, and students in educational, government, and commercial research and development environments will all appreciate the author's guidance in helping them effectively analyze and visualize data. * Presents a comprehensive and detailed treatment of IDL data types, operators, expressions, array operations, input and output, direct graphics, plotting and imaging, publication quality output, and graphical user interfaces. * Designed for novices and experienced IDL users and programmers alike. * Provides an accompanying Web site with downloadable versions of all IDL programs in the book and a link to downloadable demonstration versions of the IDL software.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Fundamentals of IDL Syntax -- Chapter 3: Writing IDL Programs -- Chapter 4: Input and Output -- Chapter 5: Direct Graphics -- Chapter 6: Plotting Data -- Chapter 7: Displaying Images -- Chapter 8 Creating Graphical Output -- Chapter 9: Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) -- Appendix A: IDL on the Internet -- Appendix B: Mathematical Routines -- Appendix C: Widget Event Structures -- Appendix D: Widget Properties -- Appendix E: Graphics Device Properties.
  note: Liam E. Gumley.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Interactive Data Language (Electronic resource)
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Interactive Data Language (Electronic resource)
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Interactive Data Language (Electronic resource)
  subject:
    topic: IDL (Computer program language)
  subject:
    topic: Application software
    topic: Development
  subject:
    topic: IDL (Langage de programmation)
  subject:
    topic: Logiciels d'application
    topic: Développement
  subject:
    topic: COMPUTERS
    topic: Programming Languages
    topic: C♯
  subject:
    topic: COMPUTERS
    topic: Programming Languages
    topic: Java
  subject:
    topic: COMPUTERS
    topic: Programming Languages
    topic: Pascal
  classification: QA76.73.I194 G86 2002eb
  classification: 005.133
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    title info:
      title: Practical IDL programming
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      name part: Gumley, Liam Edward.
    origin info:
      publisher: San Diego : Morgan Kaufmann, 2002
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    identifier: (OCoLC)49284107
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    record creation date: 030715
    record change date: 20260326144421.8
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng