@wdell
LabVIEW is really quite a pain, I'd keep avoiding it as long as possible. This year we switched from LabVIEW to Java, and the number of students we've been able to keep interested in programing increased from 1 sorta-interested student to 5 enthusiastic students.
@Patrick
Thanks for the clarification! I was worried they might be an obscure necessity for threading. I'll probably write a nice neat wrapper class and pretend that mess doesn't exist.
