Getting Started

• Craig Warner's IDL Lessons including Programming Basics from IDL 5220 class
• RIT's Class "Programming for Imaging Science:  Writing Functions and Writing Procedures
  
• Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming

Newsgroup

• comp.lang.idl-pvwave (via Google)

Mathematical Computations

• FFT secrets revealed
• Markwardt IDL Library:  Curve Fitting

Programming Language:  General

• IDL Statement Syntax
• IDL Procedures and Functions (Chapter 12 of Building IDL Applications)

Programming Language:  Tips about Specific Statements

• .reset_session
• call_function:  passing functions as arguments
• Common Blocks:  cleaner code if generally not used, and structures passed as arguments;
• Common Blocks:  use anonymous structure in common block

Code Examples and Libraries

• NASA Goddard Astronomy User's Library
• Lomb-Scarble Periodogram Example  (corresponds to R code and example)

Resources

Books

• IDL Programming Techniques, 2nd Edition

Links

• IDL Resources by Fanning Consulting
• NASA Goddard Links to IDL related sites

RSI Technical Support

Tutorials

• On-line Tutorials