recommendations for Labview skills improvment

[Jorge_Amaral]

Hello to all!

I got a dilema

I'm a labview developer for about 5 years. But I believe that my skills stopped increasing many years ago. The Programming style used in my company it's quite poor. And since we got alot of job to be done. Betting on better quality style is not the goal.

One of our products that represents a huge cash incoming grows from day to day. But making some changings it's extremely hard because the block diagram scares the bravest person.

It has lots of controls and indicators that are used like in text-based programming languages. I read in this forum that this must not be used like this. Application performance is reduced because of refreshing all of them. But with my experience, I believe that I got many situations is the most quick, sometimes clean solution to share information. Queues, Functional variables are not a practical way (imagine a situation that you got to solve a situation in a client).

All of this to... I got to improve and makes us grow.

Portugal has Basic and Intermediate 1 and 2 courses. But this are too basic to me. I NEED MORE 😉

A good way is by book! So... can anyone point me some books that help me to achieve a better programming style.

Best regards to all and have a great christmas!

[muks]

check this

[daveTW]

Hello Jorge,

one good book I read is: A Software Engineering Approach to LabVIEW

another good source of ideas is: http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&thread.id=240383

greets, Dave

[PhillipBrooks]

A Software Engineering Approach to LabVIEW by Conway & Watts

ISBN: 0130093653

Some may say that it is outdated (based on LabVIEW 6.1); but the concepts and techniques are still very appropriate for today.

I would also recommend the LabVIEW Advanced Virutal Architects (LAVA) forums. You can learn a lot by just reading the discussions that occur.

[Ben]

If you have acces to the VI Analyzer toolkit, it has style checks that can help.

Have you read through all of the Nuggets?

Ben

[Jorge_Amaral]

Many thanks to all!

I love Labview nuggets! I know them quite well!

But I think that I need a structured guide! So I think that I wil  take a look on the books!

I already knew the Labview books list... But it's much better with someone recomendation!

[Ray.R]

You can also go through all the Rube Goldberg posts and see how things got improved.

Or better yet, open example code from Knights, tst, smercurio and some of the top contributors. (my stuff is too messy 😉 )

R

[aeastet]

You can also try the CLAD examples and post them on here and get feedback about the programming style. People are very helpful here on giving input on the code displayed. Try to put together some basic programs and post them here and you can also learn that way.

[Jorge_Amaral · Accepted solution]

Ok!

I think that i got some points that can help me!

thanks to all and have a great christmas!