Summer Term 2011
Introduction to IDL for Scientific Research
Sabine Reffert & Rainer Köhler
Block Course from March 28 to April 8, 2011,
9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (with coffee and lunch breaks)
Location: Seminarraum, Nordinstitut, Landessternwarte (LSW)
how to get there
Please bring a laptop, if possible!

Please note: the password for the solutions has been changed, in order not
to spoil the experience for the participants of the
IDL Block Course in 2012!
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Outline:
- Day 1: Introduction, Getting Started, Where to Look for Help, Variables lecture1 exercises1 solutions1
- Day 2: Loops, Functions & Procedures, Good Programming Practice lecture2 exercises2 solutions2
- Day 3: Data I/O, Strings, Structures lecture3 exercises3 solutions3
- Day 4: Plots, Graphics Keywords lecture4 exercises4 solutions4
- Day 5: Color, Plotting in IDL 8.0 lecture5 exercises5 solutions5
- Day 6: Data Analysis, Fits Data, FFT lecture6 exercises6 solutions6
- Day 7: Fitting Data, Astro Library lecture7 exercises7 solutions7
- Day 8: Calibrating Data lecture8 exercises8 solutions8
- Day 9: Graphical User Interfaces lecture9 exercises9 solutions9
- Day 10: Object Oriented Programming lecture10 exercises10 solutions10
The
material
of the very similar IDL lecture series
which we held during the summer term 2010.