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LabVIEW Programming, Data Acquisition and Analysis (Virtual Instrumentation)

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Very useful book for anyone who wants to learn how Labview can be used in Data Acquisition or just wants to learn about Labview. The first few chapters provided a good intro to Labview and the later chapters provided great examples.

This is being written before I actually finished the book, but this review might save someone from making a totally uninformed decision as I did. I am new to LabView, but have learned that it will be helpful in my job to learn it. I was looking for an inexpensive book to get my feet wet so to speak and at this point must say I am a little disappointed with this package. I ordered it in September of 2009, and should have noticed the publication year was 2000. I finally got to start going through the book the other night and while installing the CD, discovered not only is this a limited evaluation copy(which is clearly stated), it "expires in thirty minutes", and it is written for Windows 98 or NT(this was not stated anywhere). I am running Vista and will soon be upgrading to Windows 7, so I am not even sure how or if it will run on my computer. At one point I got an error message that said "Wrong OS". The book may be very good, but the CD may be totally useless unless you are still running 98 or NT; I am just saying be aware of this. Thats as far as I got so far, so I will try to come back and update this review if I find encouraging things to say.

This book is neither particularly insightful, nor particularly well written for the experimentalist. I suppose if you are a student learning programming concepts through the use of a graphical language it will suffice, but if you are actually trying to hook your computer up to equipment using this book -- look elsewhere.

I like this book a lot. In first few chapters it includes a short but enough introduction about Labview. It is easy to read and to follow.

This is not a magical book which can teach you LabView from zero level to advanced one quickly. Don't expect miracles. However, if you are intended to perform DAQ with LabView, I higly recommend you to read this book with some other LabView books. This book does not go into very detail of DAQ VI's but give you some insight which may be the best for the beginning but not enough for advanced applications.

Don't forget, it takes time and effort to perform a good job for your application.