LabVIEW for Everyone: Graphical Programming Made Easy and Fun (3rd Edition) (National Instruments Virtual Instrumentation Series) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Jeffrey Travis, Jim Kring
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Category: Book
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Pages: 1032
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Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 7.4 x 2.1
ISBN: 0131856723
Dewey Decimal Number: 006
EAN: 9780131856721
ASIN: 0131856723
Publication Date: August 6, 2006
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The #1 Step-by-Step Guide to LabVIEW--Now Completely Updated for LabVIEW 8! Master LabVIEW 8 with the industry's friendliest, most intuitive tutorial: LabVIEW for Everyone, Third Edition. Top LabVIEW experts Jeffrey Travis and Jim Kring teach LabVIEW the easy way: through carefully explained, step-by-step examples that give you reusable code for your own projects! This brand-new Third Edition has been fully revamped and expanded to reflect new features and techniques introduced in LabVIEW 8. You'll find two new chapters, plus dozens of new topics, including Project Explorer, AutoTool, XML, event-driven programming, error handling, regular expressions, polymorphic VIs, timed structures, advanced reporting, and much more. Certified LabVIEW Developer (CLD) candidates will find callouts linking to key objectives on NI's newest exam, making this book a more valuable study tool than ever. *Not just what to do: why to do it!* Use LabVIEW to build your own virtual workbench *Master LabVIEW's foundations: wiring, creating, editing, and debugging VIs; using controls and indicators; working with data structures; and much more *Learn the "art" and best practices of effective LabVIEW development *NEW: Streamline development with LabVIEW Express VIs *NEW: Acquire data with NI-DAQmx and the LabVIEW DAQmx VIs *NEW: Discover design patterns for error handling, control structures, state machines, queued messaging, and more *NEW: Create sophisticated user interfaces with tree and tab controls, drag and drop, subpanels, and more Whatever your application, whatever your role, whether you've used LabVIEW or not, LabVIEW for Everyone, Third Edition is the fastest, easiest way to get the results you're after!
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More Details than the LabView 8 Student Edition Book July 6, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I purchased this book after reading the LabView 8 Student Edition book. Although the "LabView For Everyone" book covers much of the same material, I found the later to have more details and better explanations than the student version. I believe the "LabView for Everyone" is an essential volume for anyone who wishes to learn and use LabView for instrument control and simulation purposes.
I was introduced to LabView back in 1994, and was not a particular fan of the language, but after familiarizing myself with LabView Version 8, I'm quite impressed with the capabilities. What really motivated me to learn the LabView "data flow paradigm" was the incorporation of MATLAB scripts into the "G" language. Being a MATLAB power user, the combination of virtual instrumentation, data flow, and MATLAB is the winning combination for simulation and productivity.
The reason why I only gave it 4 stars is that neither the student version or the "LabView for Everyone" text covers the "Event Structure" in significant detail; thus making the reader experiment with this structure to gain operational insight. The "Event Structure" is very important since it represents a programming paradigm used by programmers familiar with the languages of Microsoft's Visual Studio such as C#, C++, Visual Basic, etc. I sincerely hope both Robert Bishop (author of the Student Edition) and Jeffrey Travis and Jim Kring (authors of LabView for Everyone) take this advice and augment the explanation of the "Event Structure" in later editions with more examples and discussion.
 Excellent textbook June 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an excellent textbook! I'm currently taking "Introduction to LabVIEW" at Tidewater Community College and this is the text that is being used. There 'are' some errors in the book, but the publisher has a list of them posted on their website that is updated reguarly. The text comes with a trial version of LabVIEW to use for the activities. If you want to spend a-bit more money; couple this text with the Student Edition of LabVIEW and the 6008/6009 USB DAQ from National Instruments and you have one of the best learning tools for LabVIEW that I've seen. The text also prepares you to take the National Instruments CLAD exam.
Required Supplement to LabVIEW Documentation October 1, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book fills in the yawning gaps of LabVIEW 8.xx's documentation and ambiguous and dense "HELP" sections. For example, as a retread LabVIEW user from over a decade ago, I looked for a simple step-by-step procedure to turn on, write, a single digital line. Just to turn on and off a single LED. The LabVIEW HELP returned many dozens of topics and forced me to read many extraneous topics to come to the conclusion that I was not going to find any help. Then, I tried to use the "easy" virtual instruments already made for the occassion, but the only one found after navigating through a thicket of unrelated virtual instruments was one which wrote a digital port of eight channels and no explanation of how to set it up to write one digital line. LabVIEW for Everyone... solved my problem and a whole lot more. This book is needed by anyone who is not an experienced LabVIEW programmer and who does not have the time or resources to attend training classes and wants to get started as soon as possible. Travis and Kring have created a readable and effective reference source for LabVIEW programmers. It is possibly the only book which addresses recent LabVIEW 8.xx software and truly does make it easy and fun.
A good introduction to LabView August 25, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
While there is a a lot of good information of the NI website, I thought buying a book would be helpful as I needed to learn LabView quickly. I thought this book was very helpful and would definately be a good book for someone new to LabView. My only wish is that it would have more converage on the DAQ part. To me this is not only the key part of LabView, it is the only part that got me confused (and still does) at some points. Some additional coverage would have helped.
The Single Best Overall Book On LabVIEW July 2, 2007
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
If you are a beginner to intermediate with LabVIEW, then the 3rd Edition is the single best book on LabVIEW available to you as of summer of 2007. If your budget only allows for one or a few books, put this one at the top of you list. I have read this book cover to cover, twice, and some sections in further detail as well as worked through all of the example code in detail.
I won't repeat the fine comments of others in their reviews. I speak from the perspective of 15+ years of working with LabVIEW, as a beginner in the early 1990s, a Certified LabVIEW instructor in the mid 90s, a small control and test system business founder and owner since the late 90s and an enthusiastic member of the LabVIEW community all during that time. I have bought most of the LabVIEW books that have ever been published as well as the (late) LTR newsletter and this 3rd Edition is the best book I have come across. If I were hiring someone new to do LabVIEW work, I'd give them a copy of this book first. The investment is a no brainer.
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