ed
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What's the appeal?
We've been trained up and provided with Labview which is made by National Instruments. It's great in one sense because you can get a whole host of hardware such as USB digital I/O's and usb AD converters which is great for my work (I'm building a machine which tests hypodermic needles). But having to draw a picture of an IF statement or a CASE and having such limited boolean operators is really really annoying and pointless.
I wish they'd just sent us on a course to use Visual Studio instead of the Labview course.
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[Edited on 13-01-2010 by ed]
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Neo
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Never heard of this but does sound like a complete waste of time ! Got any examples ?
What is it you actually do apart from imitating JR's speed of corsa building 
[Edited on 13-01-2010 by Neo]
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ed
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This is what a program might look like:
And this is what the GUI might look like:
Just a random example from the help website.
I'm a research student.
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Whittie
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Looks as though it would mke things easier I guess.
Who are you a research student for?
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ed
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In theory that should be true, but you can't do an IF in Labview (in the normal written programming sense)!
I'm a member of the Aston University Biomedical Engineering Research Group 
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Neo
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Surely it changes the way things are..."written", maybe making things easier for those who have never touched any type of coding before, but to change over to that would do my nut !
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ed
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I think it was originally aimed at people who have done analogue and digital electronics before, which I know very little  You 'wire' things up in it. It still seems strange, because writing a program in its most simple sense is just writing a set of instructions.
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