labview courses

[XFACTOR]

Hello guys,

Our company use labview for developing SCADA systems for our clients and  i am the new addition to be team. I have learnt labview just by practising,tutorials and colleagues help. I can say I know basics....Now im planning to take labview courses but i am confused. Should i start with core1 and 2? Basically i want to learn the real time projects,handling databases and reporting methods etc. Can anyone suggest which course i should take?is it necessary to basic course before jumping to advanced level?

waiting for the reply.

thank you

[AdnanZ]

I would say you start from Core 2 if you still don't know of all the design patters in LabVIEW (File -> New..). If you are aware of how that works, then start from Core 3 and go on more advanced courses. As far as I know there is no requirement to take courses in a certain pattern.

[SteveChandler]

Once you have taken two courses it starts to make more financial sense to upgrade to the training membership. Then you can just take them all I think it sounds like you would be interested in the connectivity course.

[mikeporter]

As someone who is certified to teach all of the LV courses, my advice is to start with Core 1 and continue from there. If your instructor is an experience developer the mentoring you can receive from sitting in a class with them for a week or so is worth the price of admission all by itself. In addition, I can guarantee that there are holes in what you know right now simply because there are things you haven't had a chance to try yet going through the material systematically will teach you things.

Right now you believe you know what you know. Likewise you are pretty clear about that you know what you don't know. The thing you need to understand is that there are a lot of things that you don't know you don't know.

Mike...

[Rodéric · Accepted solution]

It sounds like you need:

-Core 2 (design pattern, file I/O etc...)

-Connectivity (databases, VI server)

-real time (there are some RT and FPGA courses)

[XFACTOR]

thnx all for suggestions...... Has anyone tried taking CLAD exam without taking courses? is the exam hard or easy?

thanks

[mikeporter]

Unfortunately, it's not a matter of easy or hard. The problem is that there is a tendency to ask questions that are related to specific statements in the course material. Hence if you have read the book and remember the statement you get the answer right, if you don't remember the statement or haven't read the book you are left having to guess because there isn't enough information in the question to determine the correct answer logically.

Mike...

[XFACTOR]

ahan......ok thanx

[johnsold]

Well stated, Mike.  Someone with a lot of LabVIEW experience can pass the CLAD without taking a course (I did), but the nature of many of the questions seems to be more oriented to specific ways of thinking or talking about LV.  This is where the course material is more helpful than experience.

If you can do well on the practice exams, you can probably pass the real test.

Remember that ultimately the idea of certification is a means of demonstrating that you know something about writing good LV code, not that you have passed tests.

Lynn

[XFACTOR]

yes i do agree with u. thnx 4 suggestions