LabVIEW for Everyone: Graphical Programming Made Easy and Fun (3rd Edition)

Sometimes it's easy to overlook the obvious places to get help. The LabVIEW online and printed manuals provide excellent tutorials to get you up to speed with LabVIEW. They also contain plenty of reference information. You can find the answers to almost all of your questions in these manuals. In addition, LabVIEW has extensive online help to assist you as you build your application.

The Guys Who Wrote the Book

When all else fails, you can always hire "one of the guys who wrote the book" to help. Both Jim Kring and Jeffrey Travis offer expert LabVIEW consultation, training, and support through their respective consulting firms.

Here is their contact information:

Jeffrey Travis Studios LLC     5409 Aurora Drive     Austin, Texas 78756

     USA     Voice: 512-371-3614

     Fax: 512-697-0040     Web: http://jeffreytravis.com     Email: consulting@jeffreytravis.com

James Kring, Inc.

     1798 Great Hwy, #3

     San Francisco, CA 94122

     USA

     Voice: 888-891-7821 (toll free)     Fax: 415-366-3299

     Web: http://jameskring.com

     Email: info@jameskring.com

National Instruments

National Instruments is the company that creates and sells LabVIEW. They offer extensive technical support by phone, email, and their web site. You can contact them at

National Instruments Corporation

     11500 N Mopac Expwy

     Austin, Texas 78759-3504

     USA

     Phone: 800-531-5066

     Fax: 512-683-8411

     Web: http://ni.com

     Technical resource site: http://zone.ni.com

LabVIEW Advanced Virtual Architects (LAVA)

LabVIEW Advanced Virtual Architects, or LAVA, is an independently run web site that contains numerous resources for intermediate to advanced LabVIEW users. Browse through the lively forum discussions to learn cutting-edge programming techniques guaranteed to shave months off your development time. The forum contributors are among some of the most advanced LabVIEW programmers. If you've gone through the basics and want to take your programming to the next level, a visit to this site is a must. For more information, visit the LAVA web site at http://www.lavag.org.

Info-LabVIEW Mailing List

lnfo-LabVIEW is a user-sponsored Internet mailing list that you can use to communicate with other LabVIEW users. It is probably one of the best unbiased resources you can find on LabVIEW. You can post messages containing questions, answers, and discussions about LabVIEW on this mailing list. These messages will be sent to LabVIEW users worldwide.

To subscribe, send an email to info-labview-on@labview.nhmfl.gov for individual messages, or info-labview-digest@labview.nhmfl.gov for daily digests. All messages posted to Info-LabVIEW will then be forwarded to your e-mail address. You can cancel your subscription by sending a message to the preceding address requesting that your email address be removed from the list.

You can get more information about Info-LabVIEW at http://www.info-labview.org.

You can also search the Info-LabVIEW archives at http://www.searchview.net.

OpenG.org

OpenG is an organized community committed to the development and use of open source LabVIEW tools, applications, frameworks, and documentation. They provide free-as-in-speech toolkits for LabVIEW and provide forums for discussions related to OpenG tools for LabVIEW. See Appendix C, "Open Source Tools for LabVIEW: OpenG," for more information about OpenG and open software LabVIEW tools.

The OpenG.org web site is at http://openg.org.

Other Books

There are a number of good books that explore specific LabVIEW topics or application areas in much further detail than LabVIEW for Everyone; the following are some that are recommended:

LabVIEW Advanced Programming Techniques by Rick Bitter, Taqi Mohiuddin, and Matthew Nawrocki. CRC Press, 2000. ISBN: 0849320496.

LabVIEW Graphical Programming by Gary Johnson and Richard Jennings. McGraw-Hill, 2006. ISBN: 0071451463.

LabVIEW GUI: Essential Techniques by David J Ritter. McGraw-Hill, 2002. ISBN: 0071364935.

The LabVIEW Style Book by Peter Blume. Prentice Hall, 2006. ISBN: 0131458353.

A Software Engineering Approach to LabVIEW by Jon Conway and Steve Watts. Prentice Hall, 2003. ISBN: 0130093653.