LabVIEW 2009 Student Edition

by Robert H. Bishop, National National Instruments

<>The goal of this book is to help students learn to use LabVIEW on their own. Very art-intensive with over 400 figures in all. There are numerous screen captures in each section taken from a typical LabVIEW session. The figures contain additional labels and pointers added to the LabVIEW screen captures to help students understand what they are seeing on their computer screens as they follow along in the book. A directory of virtual instruments has been developed by the author exclusively for use by students using Learning with LabVIEW and is available on www.pearsonhighered.com/bishop. These virtual instruments complement the material in the book. In most situations, the students are asked to develop the virtual instrument themselves following instructions given in the book, and then compare their solutions with the solutions provided by the author to obtain immediate feedback. In other cases, students are asked to run a specified virtual instrument as a way to demonstrate an important LabVIEW concept. THE LABVIEW STUDENT EDITION SOFTWARE The LabVIEW 2009 Student Edition software package DVD comes packaged with this book. The LabVIEW 2009 Student Edition software package DVD is a powerful and flexible instrumentation, analysis, and control software platform for PCs running Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh OS X. The student edition is designed to give students early exposure to the many uses of graphical programming. LabVIEW not only helps reinforce basic scientific, mathematical, and engineering principles, but it encourages students to explore advanced topics as well. Students can run LabVIEW programs designed to teach a specific topic, or they can use their skills to develop their own applications. LabVIEW provides a real-world, hands-on experience that complements the entire learning process. The cover of this edition of LabVIEW 2009 Student Edition shows thirteen interesting application areas that use LabVIEW in the solution process. 1. Killer Whales 2. Airliners 3. Advanced Fighter Jets 4. Wind Power 5. RF Communications 6. Mobile Instrumentation 7. Medical Devices 8. DARwIn 9. Rion-Antirion 10. Olympic Stadium 11. Video Games 12. Robotics Education 13. Motorcycles

Genres: Reference

752 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2009

Reviews

[Adam · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent introductory book to LabView. I had to learn how to use LabView for programming mathematical models at work, so I picked this book up first, read through it, and did all the practice problems. This book has a few issues here and there, but overall I thought it was a good book.

This book is written for people that have never even seen or heard of LabView before, basically people like me. If you already have experience with the program I would recommend staying away from this book and get something that is the next level up, otherwise you may find the book painfully tedious to read.

This book brings you through all the basics, open files, creating new programs, how to develop the Front Panel and the Block Diagram. It covers sections on Loops, Math Formula Nodes, Case Structures, SubVI's, and Boolean aspects. It has a section on hooking up devices to LabView, but doesn't have a lot on building drivers or anything more advanced like that. Each chapter has practice examples, where the book basically walks you through developing your own VI while you read.

The one flaw I see with this book is that the problem sections have something called Design Problems, which are much more advanced. I was able to do a bunch of these, but I felt very unprepared to do all of them. The book does not develop the reader to a level where all of these problems are clear. Maybe this is geared towards people who have a lot of programming experience already, but I have very little as I have only dealt with C programming, prior to this. However, just by reading this book you should be able to get through all the Exercises, for that anyone should be quite well prepared.

This book also leaves out one of the most important shortcuts you could ever learn about. Space bar. It only tells you about tab for switching through the other tools. Space bar allows you to switch through the wiring tool and the pointer in the Block Diagram only! It's wonderful, you don't have to tab through a bunch of other functions and those are the most readily used functions in the Block Diagram. It similarly works on the Front Panel, switching between the hand and pointer tool.

Overall a great book for beginners and I would recommend to anyone wanting to learn LabView from scratch.

[Apsei · Rating 3 out of 5]

awsome

[Nurii Hadiatiningsih]

how to connect labVIEW with hardware mostly