Teaching Labview with Pong

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I had started doing a weekly programming challenge late last year with a new challenge each week. Each week got a little more difficult and also illustrated a certain part of LabVIEW. I also had a solution that went with each challenge (with a password so you could not see the code) to show what the outcome of the program should look like. We started our meetings having a student explain their answers from the previous week, and I would give out the password so they could look at my solution as well and compare. We ended the meetings with the next challenge.

This was a good way to get students to really start using LabVIEW in a fun way, and I could also see it being helpful for mentors too.

The biggest problem we had was access to computers outside of the club for some of the students, and it ended up falling through, but I plan to have a fix for that next year. I am also looking into some kind of more formal curriculum to use with these problems.

In all I created 6 of these challenges at various difficulties. Send me a PM if you are interested and I'll give you what I have.