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Hands-On Introduction to LabVIEW for Scientists and Engineers

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This book was written fairly well and had a nice pace, but it makes a lot of assumptions which, if incorrect, prevent you from gaining much from a lot of the material. First, it assumes the user has Mathematica or some other math graphics engine installed, which I do not, so that prevented me from following many of the examples. Second, it assumed I have access to National Instruments data acquisition hardware, which I do not, so that made a bunch of the other examples useless to me. I missed out on a lot.

I have been using LabVIEW for a while now, and there were many small things that I must have missed along the way. Essick provides a very well written book that covers the fundamentals with easy to follow examples. A great addition to anyone's shelf if they are interested in learning LabVIEW.

This book is extremely well written and easy to follow. The text leads you not only through how to do things properly in the program but mistakes that can be made and how to fix them. Great book at an even better price.

This book is perfect for anyone wanting to learn Labview. It is well laid out, with plenty of images (ideal when explaining how to do graphical programming), and the text is clear and understandable. The book takes you through building a number of VIs in a step-by-step process, and explains what is happening as you go. At the end of each chapter there are extra exercises to give you more practice. I highly recommend this book.

great book, good examples. can use text to brush up on LabVIEW or as a tutorial to learn. also a good reference with usable examples of ho-to.
* the best LabVIEW book I own (all my other ones are from years ago)

I recently taught a one quarter course using this book. The class was taken by upper level undergraduate Physics majors, and it was a projects-based class on experimental physics where the students used LabView to take data. After giving a few workshop-style lectures using this book, I found the students were able to continue to learn much of the material on their own (with the encouragement of several homework assignments). Student evaluations generally showed a positive attitude towards this book. Since this course, I have had several students use Essick's book to pick up LabView sufficiently well to complete their own undergrad and MS level research projects using the program. The only faults with the book are keeping it up to date with recent versions, relatively poor graphics quality, a limited selection of problems, and not introducing much instrument interfacing until later in the book. However I feel these are only minor issues and the book serves its purpose well.

Learned labview in about 1 month with this textbook and was able to generate test set-ups which increased the DUT to operator ratio. What I learned also applied to a design class which I took as I was able to interface Xbee radios to the software and generate a communication algorithm in about 3-4 hours. I recommend this book to someone who knows nothing about LabVIEW except that it is a programming language.

I am a beginner of LabVIEW, just began to read the book, Chapter One. Cannot follow some of the instructions in the problems. I don't know which version of LabVIEW this book is based on (better indicate)?

I have an evaluation mode of LabVIEW 2010, there are some differences, which understandable and I can get by, to follow the book.

But in the Chapter 1, some problems cannot really follow. Like problem 9, b), "History Date" seems is not exit. And for c), after create control, (no problem), it is not allowed to connect wire to the property node, not as instructed.

I am wondering, any errors here, or LabVIEW 2010 is different?

One suggestion, the problems in each Chapter are good for readers to gain hand on experience, but if you can provide the step by step solution as reference and for comparisons? If there is one available, how to get it?