The #1 Step-by-Step Guide to LabVIEW—Now Completely Updated for LabVIEW 8!

Master LabVIEW 8 with the industry’s friendliest, most intuitive tutorial: LabVIEW for Everyone, Third Edition. Top LabVIEW experts Jeffrey Travis and Jim Kring teach LabVIEW the easy way: through carefully explained, step-by-step examples that give you reusable code for your own projects!

This brand-new Third Edition has been fully revamped and expanded to reflect new features and techniques introduced in LabVIEW 8. You’ll find two new chapters, plus dozens of new topics, including Project Explorer, AutoTool, XML, event-driven programming, error handling, regular expressions, polymorphic VIs, timed structures, advanced reporting, and much more. Certified LabVIEW Developer (CLD) candidates will find callouts linking to key objectives on NI’s newest exam, making this book a more valuable study tool than ever.

• Not just what to do: why to do it!

• Use LabVIEW to build your own virtual workbench

• Master LabVIEW’s foundations: wiring, creating, editing, and debugging VIs; using controls and indicators; working with data structures; and much more

• Learn the “art” and best practices of effective LabVIEW development

• NEW: Streamline development with LabVIEW Express VIs

• NEW: Acquire data with NI-DAQmx and the LabVIEW DAQmx VIs

• NEW: Discover design patterns for error handling, control structures, state machines, queued messaging, and more

• NEW: Create sophisticated user interfaces with tree and tab controls, drag and drop, subpanels, and more

Whatever your application, whatever your role, whether you’ve used LabVIEW or not, LabVIEW for Everyone, Third Edition is the fastest, easiest way to get the results you’re after!

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 21 Ratings

More Details than the LabView 8 Student Edition Book - 2008-07-06
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I purchased this book after reading the LabView 8 Student Edition book. Although the "LabView For Everyone" book covers much of the same material, I found the later to have more details and better explanations than the student version. I believe the "LabView for Everyone" is an essential volume for anyone who wishes to learn and use LabView for instrument control and simulation purposes.

I was introduced to LabView back in 1994, and was not a particular fan of the language, but after familiarizing myself with LabView Version 8, I'm quite impressed with the capabilities. What really motivated me to learn the LabView "data flow paradigm" was the incorporation of MATLAB scripts into the "G" language. Being a MATLAB power user, the combination of virtual instrumentation, data flow, and MATLAB is the winning combination for simulation and productivity.

The reason why I only gave it 4 stars is that neither the student version or the "LabView for Everyone" text covers the "Event Structure" in significant detail; thus making the reader experiment with this structure to gain operational insight. The "Event Structure" is very important since it represents a programming paradigm used by programmers familiar with the languages of Microsoft's Visual Studio such as C#, C++, Visual Basic, etc. I sincerely hope both Robert Bishop (author of the Student Edition) and Jeffrey Travis and Jim Kring (authors of LabView for Everyone) take this advice and augment the explanation of the "Event Structure" in later editions with more examples and discussion.

Best decision I made - 2009-08-16
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Having decided to go down the LabVIEW route for a project I rapidly dug myself into a big hole because of the complexity and the fact that LabVIEW was quite different from any other language I'd used. I was under a tight timescale and couldn't afford to wait for a training course to come around so did a search on Google and Amazon. I finally decided to buy LabVIEW for Everyone, and have to say it's been one of my best decisions. It's helped me over the initial hurdle of getting my head around the concept of dataflow and proved to be an invaluable guide.

I've since bought other books, but this is still my main reference several months on, and I've now turned into a labVIEW bore. The book is well organised and is easy to follow, being written in a friendly style. Even the complex subjects are handled very well indeed.

Highly recommended.

Great! - 2009-02-27
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I am an engineering student and needed to learn how to collect data from a DC dyno and engine setup using NI products (two E-series cards and an scxi chassis w/ random cards). I wasted a lot of time trying to mess around with LabView (and failing) before buying this book. After reading about the basic graphical structures and following along with the data acquisition section, the system was working in no time.

Great start with LabVIEW - 2009-02-18
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If you need to understand the basics of LabVIEW this is a great start. Terminology in LabVIEW is different from any other programing languages and the way the compiler works is very different. Working your way through this book will get you competent to at least get some work done. The courses from NI are expensive so it may make sense to go through this book before and afterwards. You need a LabVIEW setup to make sense out of this. If you have a license at work ask NI to allow a home install for work/study. They let you do this to build the user base for the software so keep it in mind if you are serious.

not really for everyone - 2009-01-12
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the introduction and first few chapter are very good, but when it comes to data acquisition there are some number "numeric constants" i never understood where they came from and why those exacts value where chosen. overall the book is written in very good details.

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