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Originally Posted by adman
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The other HUGE PROBLEM here is we are taking NI's preferred path to
nirvana Labview. Its a language ( or picture grams ) designed to make it
easy for nonprogrammers to run instrumentation without knowing much.
This takes away from our students learning about embedded code and
sequential programming. Thats where the extra companies come in to
write a compiler so the students have the option to use C C++. There
is still the matter of converting Labview stuff to be callable by the new
compiled code. Are you seeing a pattern here? We are taking NI and trying
to convert it back into what we already have.
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With no zoom feature on Labview ( they have promised this for years, its
there number one complaint from users on their list) Its hard to isolate
sections of the code to allows students to focus on a small part at a time.
Very hard to document since its all just pictures. I am very familiar with
labview and write an array of clusters with properties any day but this
is not what we should expose our students to at this time. Its great for
what its intended. Doing some instrumentation with graphing without much
knowledge.
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With all the serious new embdedded hardware out there today there are
other options. Dean charges us with making the minds of tommorow
with the ability to solve the worlds problems. Its a lot easier to do that
when our students know they can buy the processor we use in an IFI
controller for less than 10 bucks and make the astounding machines they
make now. If we go this route they need to buy a 2000 dollar Compact
RIO to make a new IPOD?
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Yes! 100% correct on all counts--being an embedded developer myself, these were the exact complaints I had, but didn't know if I should mention them here or not.
If you want someone else to help "make noise", I'll be glad to join in...
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