Special Practice on
Programming and data structures in MIDAS
by V.B.Il'in

  1. General information on Linux and MIDAS    (1 lesson - its text1, text2)
    Basic terms and commands.

  2. MIDAS Command Language    (1.5 lesson - its text, control tasks)
    Commands. Keywords. Procedure parameters.

  3. Help and debugging in MIDAS    (0.5 lesson - its text, control tasks)
    Help system. Tutorial. Debug commands.

  4. Table system of MIDAS    (1.5 lesson - its text, control tasks)
    Definition of MIDAS-table. Transformation in ASCII-table. Basic Operations.

  5. Approximation in MIDAS    (1.5 lesson - its text, control tasks)
    Fit-files. Approximation of tabular functions.

  6. Data structures in MIDAS    (1 lesson - its text, control tasks)
    Images. Descriptors. Catalogues.

  7. Input/output formats of MIDAS    (0.5 lesson - its text, control tasks)
    FITS, BDF, ASCII formats and their connection.

  8. Fortran/C programming in MIDAS    (1.5 lesson - its text, control tasks)
    Main principles. A simple example.

  9. Data visualization in MIDAS    (1 lesson - its text, control tasks)
    Graphic and image displays and their parameters. Symbols, lines, etc.

  10. Astrophysical applications    (rest lessons - tasks)
    Several examples of spectrum and image processing.

Note: About the organization of the special practice in 2004, please read here
(this and other files refered above are RTF-files created in MS Word 97).

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Last modified: 19/02/04 by V.I.