im a newbie please heeeeelp

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Mon, 01/28/2008 - 05:59 pm

i dont know nothing about igor but i can see how skilled users can make good models with this


how can i learn to use this?
i read the manual but i dont understand nothing relly
do you have simple code that i can reed and try to learn from them

do you know any manual different from the program manual
I would recommend that you download Igor and from the help menu choose "Getting Started". You'll find links to the Guided Tutorials from there, which are a good way to help get familiar with concepts. You'll also find a lot of useful concepts used in the example experiments, which you can get to by choosing File -> Example experiments.

January 28, 2008 at 06:47 pm - Permalink

newbielol wrote:
i dont know nothing about igor but i can see how skilled users can make good models with this

how can i learn to use this?
i read the manual but i dont understand nothing relly
do you have simple code that i can reed and try to learn from them

do you know any manual different from the program manual


As recommended, going through the tutorials is an excellent way to start using Igor Pro for the first time. Sitting down with the manual while actually using the program is highly recommended (as opposed to just reading the manual). Should you be interested in something else as well, I have a chapter on data analysis that I prepared for one of my undergraduate engineering lab manuals, and it has a section that introduces the basic use of Igor Pro to plot data and fit it with linear or non-linear regression functions.

(side note: Adam, would the ability for users to post such documents related to the use of Igor Pro independently of code fit in the IgorExchange philosophy, and if so, how ... perhaps as a new type of Project called Documentations ...?)

Can you also explain briefly what exactly you want to accomplish, and perhaps the reponses here can be better directed at your specific needs. For example, tell us what kind of data you have and what you want to do with it.

Finally, if you have not done so, consider joining the Igor email Listserver and certainly keep track of this site for useful hints and tips.

HTH

--
J. J. Weimer
Chemistry / Chemical & Materials Engineering, UAH

January 29, 2008 at 06:36 am - Permalink

thanks for the posts and your answers
i join to the digest email list and i see the example of the reverse wave i try to find things like that
to start to learn i need to know the basics commands and a lot of examples of that commands


i wanna read the chapter that you writed maybe that can help me to learn more about how to use the program in the best way


the manual is too big 2000 pages T_T, and is not easy and fast to understand and have very few examples
is not writen for a newbie is more writed to the more experienced users

January 29, 2008 at 05:17 pm - Permalink

newbielol wrote:

the manual is too big 2000 pages


Start with the Guided Tour and then read other chapters as needed. Doing the Guided Tour is essential.

January 30, 2008 at 03:18 pm - Permalink

Here's an interesting super-simple introduction to Igor created by a user (recovered from the Wayback Machine, circa 2006):

Help and some guidelines for using IGOR Pro and some user defined Macros are listed below. Most parts of the Macros will run under Windows and Mac OS. Load-File-Folders are only running under Windows operating systems, yet.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060910003256/http://www.chm.colostate.edu:…
Introduction to Igor Part 1 - Load Files, display and rename waves, some basic graph manipulation. update: 20.11.05 Introduction to Igor Part 2 - Introduction in user-defined fit-functions. update: 20.03.06 CSU-Macros.ipf - Load XRD- and XPS-Files, TIFF-processing; required other user functions, revised for Igor 6.3

January 30, 2008 at 07:53 pm - Permalink

There is also a circa 2018 book from Martin Schmid:

Programming in Igor Pro, by Martin Schmid

Programming in Igor Pro: A Comprehensive Introduction (paperback: 146 pages) by Martin Schmid is an introductory text to Igor's built-in programming language (Igor 7 and above).

You will learn about fundamental aspects like functions, variables, and strings - but also about regular expressions, bitwise operations, and graphical user interfaces.

In addition, the book comes with 15 fully functional example projects.

This book is the right choice for you if:

  1. You are already using Igor, but you want to get more out of it.
  2. You have never programmed before and you want to learn a somewhat simplified programming language to understand the basic concepts (the core of Igor's programming language resembles a simplified C dialect).
  3. You are a scientist or engineer and you want to write programs with a direct access to a powerful data analysis and visualization environment.

July 27, 2018 at 04:22 pm - Permalink