SteveChandler Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 Do any of you recommend this book? The amazon site has some pretty negative reviews but all dealing with poor print quality. One of the more recent reviews said that this has been fixed. My biggest concern is that the book seems old. I think it predates LVOOP. Quote Link to comment
jgcode Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 Do any of you recommend this book? The amazon site has some pretty negative reviews but all dealing with poor print quality. One of the more recent reviews said that this has been fixed. My biggest concern is that the book seems old. I think it predates LVOOP. My prints fine. I have heard of those issues, but never seem them so I can't comment. However, in terms of the content, I recommend this book, it was a fundamental text when I was learning and I am actually keen to re-read it soon. It does predate LVOOP and I read it before I was using LVOOP but it talks about OOP and how they implemented those concepts using what they had available in the IDE at the time to create components\modules\MFVI's using LCOD. In summary, a good read if you ask me. Quote Link to comment
SteveChandler Posted February 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 Thanks. It's on order. I hope there is a new edition in the works just in case the author is reading. Quote Link to comment
Yair Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 I hope there is a new edition in the works just in case the author is reading. I doubt it. Here's a recent (as in the past couple of weeks) quote from him on Info LV on the topic: Hi all,As the author of "A Software Engineering Approach to LabVIEW" I was totally disenchanted with the whole process of writing books. (Thanks Prentice-Hall!). I'm interested to hear that they may be publishing it again in a professional manner, or of similar interest that it's out of print. So what's the real story? Quote Link to comment
Daklu Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 The amazon site has some pretty negative reviews but all dealing with poor print quality. There was a lot of discussion about this on the LV mailing list last week. Apparently the print quality is restricted to the second printing. If you get one from the first or third printing you'll be okay. Can't comment on content. Quote Link to comment
Michael Aivaliotis Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 The book describes how I used to program like 10 years ago. I later migrated to OpenGoop, Very out of date. It's very light on the OO concepts as well. Native LVOOP is the only way to go moving forward and this book doesn't help you get there. Not saying you can't use the methods described, but why would you when there are better ways. As far as the printing, I was lucky to get the first one out in 2003. So quality was excellent. Quote Link to comment
ASTDan Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 I really liked this book. My copy the pictures are bad but the text is readable. I still program in this style, and need migrate to OOP. My expectation is that the transition will be a lot easier to OOP because of the concepts introduced to me in this book. Dan Quote Link to comment
GMoney Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 While you are waiting for your book to come in, you can check out Elijah Kerry's (LV Product Marketing Manager) presentation on Software Engineering in LabVIEW (http://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-4254). It's pretty good. Quote Link to comment
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