How did you guys start

[einchewon]

I’m taking a labview programming course in my major (biomedical engineering), materials and books are not enough for me, how to practice how to interpret the questions and tasks that I’m being asked?

I need help or some guidance on how to practice and master the interface and just know what to put and not to put

[Ahmed99]

Follow NI courses cores 1,2,3 and you will learn exact how to program '

[altenbach]

asked and answered three weeks ago on reddit.

[Bob_Schor]

I knew the "basics" of programming (BASIC, MatLab, Fortran, Pascal, Macro-11) but nothing about LabVIEW.  In a new position, I "inherited" a large LabVIEW Real-Time program to run a study of sound localization by large primates (mainly BMEstudents) in complete darkness.

Had a mentor -- LabVIEW programmer who was "maintaining" (and incrementally "fixing") the unwieldly program called "A-Lab", running on LabVIEW 7.  Bought two books -- "LabVIEW for Everyone" (Travis and Kring) and "The LabVIEW Style Book" (Peter Blume).  The first taught me (with mentor's help and guidance) the "how to", the second taught me the importance of Style and planning, including "All Block Diagrams should fit on a Laptop screen", "All VIs need an Icon, even if only three short lines of text", and "All VIs and TypeDefs need a Description/Documentation".

Find yourself a mentor with LabVIEW experience!  Read Peter's book (several times, if necessary).  You might also check out the more recent "LabVIEW Graphical Programming, 5th Edition" by Peter Jennings and Fabiola de la Cueva.

Bob Schor  

[RTSLVU]

Beside the training offered I learned on the job by doing. I learn better when I have an actual project to apply what I learned to, not just arbatary little programs that blink an indicator or whatever...