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Hands-On Exercise Manual for LabVIEW Programming, Data Acquisition and Analysis

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It appears that this book is intended to be used with some class, as it is just example after example. There are no explanations, no text to speak of. A person is just as well equipped to learn Labview with or without this book. There are screen shots of the VIs and you literally need to try and decipher which blocks they have placed in the examples. If you have used LabView at all, you already know the severe limitations of the block diagram display, now imagine a book filled with bad print outs of screen shots of those displays. That is essentially all this book is. Build this VI, build that VI, no words to explain what you are doing, and why. This is one of the only books I have ever thrown away.

I've used this book for many years as a learning tool for newbie programmers. As the other reviewer mentioned, the book leaves out details as to what is actually going on, and leaves it up to the user to get it to work and see what happens. This book helps one go beyond the tutorial built into Labview.

This book is best if you
(a) have some Labview programming experience [at least know how navigate it and have run through some of the examples in the Labview Help]
or
(b) are in a class and want more practice
or
(c) have some direction or person to go to with question.

It's also a good refresher/boot-camp for those who haven't touched Labview in years.