Re: total noob question :)
 

The free online stanford CS courses.

They really stress software engineering, not so much learning a language.
http://see.stanford.edu/SEE/Courses.aspx
The professor is pretty good though. At least for the one that i watched.

Also from the description of labview that we just received, it sounds as if it would work best with VxWorks, because VxWorks is an RTOS (Real Time Operating System) that is "hard-real time" RTOS....

basically it's an operating system that all events must be finished by their scheduled times, if they aren't done by then it's considered a failure of the system.

thus labview and the VxWorks seem to go hand in hand.

Does this make sense to everyone else?