Application Development with IDL

Rating:
Summary: Straight to the point
Review: Ronn did an excellent job with this one.

If you already have a basic IDL programming knowledge then this book is a must. Have you ever been staring at your screen while your computer was calculating all these loops for a huge dataset? Then you have not been using array techniques to speed up things. Ronn tells you how to do it, and this is just the first chapter of his book.

There are many techniques described in this book, all with source code and step-by-step analysis, so that you can also learn instead of just feel like using a cookbook.

The chapters about regions of interest (ROI's) and active contours (snakes) I found invaluable.

If your everyday needs are more than just typing a few commands at the IDL prompt, then you should learn the secrets of IDL programming by reading this book.