Opinions on Labview books....

[Nick Ford]

I'm a newbie at Labview and I'm looking at purchasing a couple of books:

Learning with LabVIEW 6i, 2nd Edition, Robert H. Bishop
OR
LabVIEW Advanced Programming Techniques by Rick Bitter

Does anyone have any comments on either of these?
I am looking for a good beginners reference and also a more advanced book
which covers initial design techniques and how to structure larger
applications.

Nick

[stupid]

Try

LabVIEW Graphical Programming : Practical Applications in Instrumentation
and Control
by Johnson Gary W., Gary W. Johnson

and

LabVIEW Signal Processing (Virtual Instrumentation Series)
by Abhay R. Samant, et al

Joe




Nick Ford wrote in message ...
>I'm a newbie at Labview and I'm looking at purchasing a couple of books:
>
>Learning with LabVIEW 6i, 2nd Edition, Robert H. Bishop
>OR
>LabVIEW Advanced Programming Techniques by Rick Bitter
>
>Does anyone have any comments on either of these?
>I am looking for a good beginners reference and also a more advanced book
>which covers initial design techniques and how to structure larger
>applications.
>
>Nick
>
>
>

[doobs]

On Wed, 16 May 2001 12:55:35 +1000, "Nick Ford"
wrote:

>I'm a newbie at Labview and I'm looking at purchasing a couple of books:
>Learning with LabVIEW 6i, 2nd Edition, Robert H. Bishop

I used the 1st edition to learn LabVIEW. If you can get the version with the
Student Edition of LabVIEW you can teach yourself LabVIEW very easily. Highly
recommended particularly for learning.

I also like "Advanced LabVIEW labs" by John Esseck. This covers an awful lot
of the minutiae that is left undiscussed in Bishop's book.

>OR
>LabVIEW Advanced Programming Techniques by Rick Bitter

This isn't so much a how to book, but a how would it be done. I probably
would advise against it. You certainly aren't going to learn to program in
LabVIEW from this book.

>
>Does anyone have any comments on either of these?
>I am looking for a good beginners reference and also a more advanced book
>which covers initial design techniques and how to structure larger
>applications.

As Joe suggests, Gary Johnson's books are generally good. I like "LabVIEW
Graphical Programming, Practical Applications in Instrumentation and Control"
is good, but I like Power Programming even better. Lot's of HIGH POWER
applications and examples. Mr. Johnson's books are definitely not tutorials
however. Once you have your basic skill set down his books are very good at
taking you to the next step.

Don't overlook NI's LabVIEW manuals available at
ftp.ni.com/support/labview/manuals

You will probably wear out your printer, but the users manual (P/N 320999C-01)
and the measurements manual (P/N 322661A-01) are really good places to start.

>
>Nick
>
>
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[Kevin Ross]

You can't go wrong with Gary Johnsons books . Used with the manuals and the
examples that come with Labview you shouldn't have any trouble picking it
up. I did and was up to speed with it almost as fast as the guys who took
the NI training. The book by Bitter, Nawrocki, et al is also excellent.
Sometimes having a reference to show you at least one way to accomplish a
task can be helpful. I highly reccomend this book when you are ready for
some of the more advanced features and programming techniques available in
Labview.


Nick Ford wrote in message
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> I'm a newbie at Labview and I'm looking at purchasing a couple of books:
>
> Learning with LabVIEW 6i, 2nd Edition, Robert H. Bishop
> O
R
> LabVIEW Advanced Programming Techniques by Rick Bitter
>
> Does anyone have any comments on either of these?
> I am looking for a good beginners reference and also a more advanced book
> which covers initial design techniques and how to structure larger
> applications.
>
> Nick
>
>
>

[Nick Ford]

I noticed on Amazon.com that a new edition of this book (LabVIEW Graphical
Programming 6.0) is about to be published in July 2001. I'm using Labview
6i, is the current edition of the book suitable for Labview 6i or should I
wait for the July edition.


Kevin Ross wrote in message
news:9dv2f0$t0h$1@flood.xnet.com...
> You can't go wrong with Gary Johnsons books . Used with the manuals and
the
> examples that come with Labview you shouldn't have any trouble picking it
> up. I did and was up to speed with it almost as fast as the guys who took
> the NI training. The book by Bitter, Nawrocki, et al is also excellent.
> Sometimes having a reference to show you at least one way to accomplish a
> task can be helpful. I highly reccomend this book when yo
u are ready for
> some of the more advanced features and programming techniques available in
> Labview.
>
>
> Nick Ford wrote in message
> news:dNlM6.27910$482.132687@newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
> > I'm a newbie at Labview and I'm looking at purchasing a couple of books:
> >
> > Learning with LabVIEW 6i, 2nd Edition, Robert H. Bishop
> > OR
> > LabVIEW Advanced Programming Techniques by Rick Bitter
> >
> > Does anyone have any comments on either of these?
> > I am looking for a good beginners reference and also a more advanced
book
> > which covers initial design techniques and how to structure larger
> > applications.
> >
> > Nick
> >
> >
> >
>
>