Java vs Labview

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by techhelpbb

This is not a dig against LabView but:
There is no LabView at my financial institution.

You walk out of high school knowing Java/Python with some practice you could write software worth huge sums of money to support your future.

You walk out of high school knowing C++ as an embedded engineer or OS contributor you are in good shape. If you easily exchange that knowledge for C# you broaden your future more on the .NET bandwagon.

I can certainly see the value in LabView for engineering and automation professionally and everywhere I have used it was for that purpose.

LabVIEW isn't an obviously useful skill if you intend to pursue a career in programming. But if you just end up needing to do a little bit of programming as part of your engineering job, and especially if you want to write programs to interface with lab instruments, it's good to know.