Modern IDL is an opinionated guide to using IDL, including information about recent versions of IDL, advanced topics, and best practices. Modern IDL is also a useful reference guide for both beginners and advanced users, collecting tables and lists of items that are scattered through the online help.
What others are saying about Modern IDL:
. But I've always wanted a thorough, concise, up-to-date overview of the the IDL language and its vast capabilities. This is exactly what Mike's book provides in 464 very informative pages. Can't wait to have the "real thing" on my bookshelf. Highly recommended!
In my opinion, Galloy has written an outstanding and comprehensive book covering a vast range of topics relevant to the current world of IDL programming. This is a terrific resource — one that I will definitely revisit time and time again.
—Lesa Williams, Exelis VIS Programming Consultant
Details. 462 pages. Published May 2011. English. 8.5 x 11 inches. ISBN 978-1-329-29870-5 . 978-1-329-29870-5
Michael Galloy is currently a Software Engineer/Programmer at NCAR. He works on data from the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (MLSO) in the High Altitude Onservatory (HAO). Previously, he worked as a research scientist for Tech-X Corporation involved in scientific visualization using IDL and Python. Before that, he worked for five years teaching all levels of IDL programming and consulting for Research Systems, Inc. (now L3Harris Geospatial). He is the creator and maintainer of several open source projects including IDLdoc, mgunit, and mglib. He has written over 300 articles on IDL and scientific visualization for his website michaelgalloy.com. He is the principal investigator for NASA SBIR grants "Remote Data Exploration with IDL" for DAP bindings in IDL and "A Rapid Model Fitting Tool Suite" for accelerating curve fitting using modern graphics cards. He is a frequent contributor to the comp.lang.idl-pvwave Usenet newsgroup.
