Introduction

• Course Outline
• Getting started
• Using VNC
• How to get the audio files

Session Assignments
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Projects 1 2 3 4

Rolando's Notes
2001
2002

Exams

UNIX Fundamentals

• VNC
• What is UNIX?
• Basic UNIX.
• Basics of File Structure.
• File and Directory Commands.
• Text Editors.
• Network Utilities.
• The Shell and Shell Commands.

1. Practice with constants and basic operators
2. Writing the first IDL program
3. Array indexing
4. Using Procedures and Functions
5. Writing Functions
6. Writing Procedures
7. Using Control Statements
8. Reading and Displaying Images
9. Reading Data from Files
10. Writing Data to Files

IDL

• Variable types
• Variable name assignment
• Variables and expressions
• Operators
• Vectors and Arrays
• Array Indexing
  
• Writing IDL Programs
• Control Statements

Various Useful Links

• Z Buffering Theory
• Floating Point Description
• Floating Point Paper
• XDR Reference
• netCDF User's Guide
• HDF Tutorial
• HDF User's Guide

Recommended Books

Acknowledgments