• Examples are available from the website example page, as part of the NetCDF Tutorial, or in the "examples" subdirectory in the netCDF distribution.
• The website example page also includes Java examples, and user contributed examples in Python, Perl, MATLAB, and IDL. (We still need equivalent Ruby examples.)
• The CDL output for each example file can be found in the examples/CDL directory of the source distribution. By checking the resulting example file against the CDL in the distribution, the examples also serve as end-to-end testing of the library and utilities.
• More examples are planned:
  • Generic examples, such as a program to copy an arbitrary netCDF file through each language interface.
  • Examples focusing on the use of new netCDF-4 performance and data model features.
• We welcome instructive new examples, in any language. Send your example, which should include a program to write a file, and another to read it, to support-netcdf@unidata.ucar.edu.

2011 Unidata NetCDF Workshop > Introduction to the NetCDF APIs and Example Programs