My Adieu to LabVIEW : Your Comments

[FraggerFox]

Hi all,

Today is the time when I take a very tough decision for myself. I would be leaving the code development in LabVIEW for atleast next two years(or more). I was of the thought that only LabVIEW won't suffice throughout my whole career. So, since I now have a chance, I would now be switching to C and C++ programming, and then progressing through VB and .NET . Maybe, this would be making my profile stronger and more demanding in future.

Could you all please comment which programming languages would be better to work on now, so that I can use my experience in LabVIEW in a more effective way? Which would be the best package of programming languages I can form with LabVIEW?

Thanks!

[parthabe]

Since you have worked with LV for some time now, I d suggest you to take up VB with .Net.

I feel so because VB closely resembles LV in FP & the properties window & things like that...

C/C++ is always good to learn to write code to talk to any hardware, which LV cannot achieve totally.

Message Edited by parthabe on 10-30-2009 01:28 AM

[FraggerFox]

That's correct. But when we talk about driver level development, then C and C++ are must. So, better to go through C/C++, then try hands on VB and .NET, so the text based syntax flow would be better understood in VB after we are familiar about it in C.

[muks]

That is a nice step. Please learn VC++ too.

[FraggerFox]

@muks:

How would learning VC++ help me? Could you explain?

[parthabe]

VC++ is also used to write device drivers.

[FraggerFox]

Ok.....Well, I will start off with C/C++ first and then go through VB.

Any more comments please?

[parthabe]

Now comes the most important que - which company are you going to join... ?!

[FraggerFox]

One which doesn't work on LabVIEW 😄

Its sad that there are less opportunities in LabVIEW in India when we compare to other programming languages like C or VB.

[Intaris]

Learn to use solid Software engineering techniques.

That'll help you in every language (even VB!).

Shane.