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Re: Is switching from LabVIEW a bad idea?

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Originally Posted by Alexa Stott View Post
Basically, in the countless job applications and interviews that I (a CS major) and my engineer friends have encountered, LabVIEW has never once come up.
Allow me to offer a counterpoint, I have encountered numerous jobs where having LabVIEW on my resume was helpful to me. But I also list C/C++, Python, Ruby, Java, and a handful of other languages I've picked up over the years.


As for the topic, if your mentor force (or students) feel more comfortable working in or helping with another language switch to that one. If they don't have a preference any of the languages will teach programming concepts equally well. LV might also have a benefit in that most students will never take a course on it. Most of this comes down to preference though.
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