new labview course

[jaehattrick-simpers]

I am helping to setup a course in labview for a small community college and am having a bit of difficulty deciding between using "Learning with Labview 8" or "Labview for everyone graphical...".  Does anyone have a suggestion as to which book will be more useful to help second year undergraduate students with limited lab experience become acquainted with using Labview?

[srikrishnaNF]

Hello jeahattrick,

   You can refer/prescribe the book titled"Labview for everyone-Graphical Programming made easy and fun".This book is avaliable as an e-book.For practical learning of labview you can also prescribe "Labview Graphical Programming-Gary W.Johnson".

Thanks and regards,

srikrishnaNF

[jaehattrick-simpers]

srikrishnaNF,

Thank you for your suggestion.  I am still really leaning towards the "Labview for everyone..." text. I want my students to finish my class being able to pass the the CLAD exam. But above that I hope that the text I recommend will contain enough information so that they could read further on and be prepared for the CLD exam.

Do the books you are recommending cover both the CLAD and the CLD?

Thanks again,

Best,

JrHS 

[Dennis_Knutson]

Are you a certified LabVIEW instructor? If not, that might be something you want to persue.

Have you seen the descriptions of the Student Edition Textbook and LabVIEW for Everyone? The textbook is the most up to date since it references LabVIEW 2009. Either one would should prepare a student to pass the CLAD. I think all it takes to pass the CLAD is LabVIEW Basics I and II and those only total one week of classes. I can't comment on which would be best for CLD prep. In my opinion, you should have several months of pratical experience before that.

[jaehattrick-simpers]

Dennis,

No, I am not certified, although that might be interesting to pursue...  I got started with LabVIEW as an undergraduate and have used it fairly regularly for basic automation for ~ 10 years now.

I have a copy of LabVIEW for Everyone as well as Learning with Labview 8 and LabVIEW 2009 Student Edition, but I like the former the best.  The goal isn't to get them through both the CLAD and the CLD.  I want the course to prepare them for the CLAD (I have modeled the outline of the course to reflect the outlines of LabVIEW Basics I and II), and provide them with a solid reference book.  This way if they are interested in pursuing a CLD they won't need to purchase an additional textbook.  

I merely wondered if the books previously would cover as much information as the LabVIEW for everyone did.  ( I don't have those books right now. )

JrHS 

[Harold_Timmis]

this book helped me through the clad and soon will help me through the CLD it is called:

"LabVIEW Advanced Programming Techniques Second Edition" 

[Gautam Dee]

HI

I taught myself labview form scratch to work on a cRIO project. I got 2 books from the library,  "learning with labview" by Robert Bishop which is a very very good book to start off if you dont even know how to start labview 😛 (which was my case :))

Then the second book was Labview graphical programming by Richard jennings and Gary johnson (4th edition). It is a pretty decent book with CLAD and CLD tagged secions. I cleared CLAD in 20 days after i started reading both the books.

Right now after all the compact RIO programming experience, I am trying to clear CLD.

I have the book you mentioned too, "labview for everyone, made fun and easy" , I read though that and got a feeling that it was not very helpful  for CLD. It has more stuff on DAQs and interfaces which you will not need for the certification. And you kind of figure out everything on your own when working with hardware through online help and forums than a text book. What you need for sure is an insight into capabilities of labview which is difficult to find all in one place, online.

Since you would be teaching others, they will not need the basic reference like robert bishop but I do highly reccomend Jennings and johnson's book.

Hope it helped !

--Dee

[Ben]

My boss teaches LabVIEW at CMU and uses the text "LabVIEW for Everyone".

Ben

[Ben]

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Dennis Knutson wrote:

Are you a certified LabVIEW instructor? If not, that might be something you want to persue.

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Although certification is required to teach NI courses, I don't know how that will help if teaching non-NI courses. When I went through it, it was alot of polical correctness* and no LV content at all.

Ben

* Of course I failed when I added stuff that wasn't in the book. They thought I was so bad that they refused to allow me to re-take the course for a year and I had to co-teach hmmm... 4 classes before I retried. I settled for letting my co-workers teach the courses.

Message Edited by Ben on 05-20-2010 07:52 AM