Required Course Materials

None!

Optional Course Materials

The LabVIEW software will be available from any campus lab computer, thanks to our network licensing.  This comes with extensive documentation, which is probably all you will really need.

If you wish to have a book of your own, you might consider the following:

Hands-On Introduction to LabVIEW for Scientists and Engineers, by John Essick (Oxford University Press, 2018) ISBN: 978-0190853068 (now in 4th edition, but any edition would be useful)

Labview Student Edition by Robert H. Bishop (Prentice Hall, 2014) ISBN: 978-0134011332.  This is supposed to include a code to run downloaded software, but Amazon comments suggest there may be problems.

To get the software for yourself, there are student editions that are quite cheap, available for both Mac and PC.

Note on Software Versions:

As far as this course is concerned, the differences between the versions is not terribly important. A book about version 7 (that is, ancient), or even version 6, will cover all of the programming techniques we discuss, possibly with a little change in jargon.

For the some of the projects, a newer version may be required in order to control some of the newer equipment.  But one could still do much of the programming using an earlier version of the software.

However, it is necessary that I be able to run your programs on my computer.  If you want to program on a platform other than the computers in the LabVIEW lab, please check with me to make sure that we are compatible.