Finding Experienced Labview Programmers

[Kenny_K]

I feel I am lucky to work for a company that does support me in writing in LabVIEW, and actually thinks that it is one of the greatest things since sliced bread.  Now, we also do not have any other programmers (just hobby programmers), so I dont have to compete with any other languages/programmers.

I wish I was able to great more diverse programs, say if I was in a larger labview firm, but you can't argue with a company that lets me create programs as I see fit and encourage me to do so, and wants me to go to all the classes I can take to become a better programmer.

I agree that for simple task, labview is incredibly simple and almost anyone can do it.  But then again, I think the same goes for simple C programs, both have a short learning curve for simple tasks, even for a person that wanted nothing to do with programming in college ()  But once you get to the large application sector, then you get into a whole new breed of programmer, in any language.

[falkpl]

Putnam sorry I missed your Toung and Cheek.

As for expanding our buisness yes we are looking if we can find a good fit.  I can be contacted at paulf@colemantech.com

I do think that anyone expecting to master any technical skill in a few hours is not possible not even labview.  Maybe NI does oversell the ease of use of labview.  The real learning curve in labview is the creativity required to solve many of teh problems since there is much fewer mentors and resources avaliable than more conventional languages.  I have struggled to master this language over a decade and still learn somethiong new almost every day.  This community has been one of the most powerful resources I have found.

Paul

[shoneill]

It's hard to get proper understanding for LV as a programming language when it's being sold to kids with LEGO.

I know it really has nothing to do with it, but it just adds to the preconceptions that it's more of a toy than a programming language.

I'm currently transferring my work over to a new guy at work (I'm around only until the end of the year) and he claimed he already had LV experience.  Having showed him "Event-driven queue-bases state machine" architecture, he was a bit amazed at the sophistication available within LV.  The idea of decoupling UI from data handling was kind of new for him.  He'd do it automatically in C, but it just never occurred to him with LV.  This blind-side for the possibilities LV offers is hurting us because it devalues our skill-set in the market.

NI, please do something to address this.  We're on the front line fighting for LV acceptance (our livelihoods depend on it).  We could use some marketing or strategic help from NI (Perhaps dropping the "LabVIEW" name would help).  I realise that NI is making money on hardware and are quite happy with things at the moment, but it can be quite frustrating at times when an "average" Delphi programmer belittles programming in LV even though you code him out of the water in half the time he would take to get started........

OK. Rant over.

Shane.

[Ray.R]

Hi Shane,

Good rant.

Believe me... your type of rant has gone on before and is still going on..  Me doing the ranting!!  😉

It's a double-edge sword.  Yep LV is sim[ple to use. Yep you NEED to know how to program WELL just as in any other language.

Otherwise, why would you need LV experts?????

[Graziano]

Hi Shane and JoeLabView,
   I strongly agree with you, since LabView is really often un-recognised as a Programming language. 

   I think it is a cultural problem: when C language gained popularity, old assembly programmers laughed at it, and said that there were not place for such a "high level, unefficent" programming language.
 
   Today, UML is gaining place, and I think this can help to get confident with the idea of graphical programming.

graziano

[Ray.R]

UML?? What is that?  LOL!!! 😄

(PS: I was KiDDing!!)

[Graziano]

I'm always slow in understanding jokes

[EWTech]

Until UML becomes something more of a standard (the only tool that works for everything in UML is a marker and a white board...) then I'm in. I have yet to see it anything other than my own documentation and that only to track the changes I've made as I implement them. UML is great for development work to brainstorm and very difficult to scale past that point. Most tools that use UML are great for starters but past a certain complexity are completely useless.

So where is UML used in LabVIEW?

[Oli Oli Oxin Free]

Hey there

I have a project to do using LabView at work and from the discussion, it looks like you have a good understanding of Labview compared to me who just started a few days ago and self teaching. I need to write a labview program to take audio recordings from a microphone and be able to save it as a wav file on my computer. it would be greatly appreciated if you could direct me in the right direction as this project is due very soon.

[parthabe]

If you can make a search for the title here in these forums, you ll get a lot of discussions in the topic.