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Originally Posted by EStokely
I am also curious how well my students who are 'C' biased for programming take to the icons.
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[laughs] I find that I have to sit down with the students and introduce them to the concept of functional, procedural, and data flow language paradigms before they can begin to appreciate the fact that they'll most likely be dealing with "non C-or-text-based languages" for the rest of their lives.
Text based functional or procedural programmers will have some transition time before they can effectively program in a graphical dataflow language - this is normal, I recommend that they open example programs in LabVIEW to begin understanding how to write proper graphical LabVIEW code. G-based programs (G is the graphical language name) have their own
design patterns, and students who can identify and learn those patterns will be more effective LabVIEW programmers.
-Danny