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Originally Posted by ahollenbach
My thoughts:
LabView - an interesting and simplistic programming language. However, I'm on the fence as to whether this is a good introduction to programming, because visual programming is significantly different from regular programming, and you can run out of physical space in your layout (*sigh).
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Simplistic? It doesn't sound like you looked very far beneath the surface. LabVIEW for FRC is extremely feature-rich, and it isn't even all of what is available.
If you just think of it as "visual programming" you're missing a significant part of what makes it LabVIEW. The big difference isn't pictures instead of text; it's dataflow programming instead of procedural.
Running out of physical space shouldn't be a problem unless you think it's a good idea to put all of your code in one enormous function. Again, it doesn't sound like you did any serious exploration of LabVIEW.
For students without a lot of prior programming experience, I think LabVIEW has a lot of positive points. The only thing right now that makes me lean at all toward C++ is the time it takes to compile and deploy a program.