Austin - Second Day

Today, all I did at my work was sitting down in the classroom and learning how to use their famous LabView software; this class lesson is usually given to NI’s customers.

LabView is like a language but it’s different from others because everything is done graphically; no coding required. It is used primarily as a virtual instrument whereby you eliminate the need to purchase single-use measuring instrument with its own screen and computer built-in; with this LabView, you can use your own personal computer as the brain while using the NI’s multipurpose probes for measurement. This reduces the overall cost of buying a whole instrument because you only need to get the probes. LabView is really user-friendly! Way better than anything else; which reminds me of Mentor Graphics and its “super friendly” interface… Crap.

We had to sit there in front of the computer and listen attentively (though I did doze off near the lunch hour) to the guy teaching us for the whole day from eight o’clock till five o’clock with lunch break at half past eleven. It was quite tough but manageable. Hon Mun told me it was his first time being attentive for such a long time... XD Mostly because I was really interested in this well-known software of theirs and at the end of the day, I found that this software is superb! It’s like C/C++/VHDL language and way easier to use because it’s all graphical! No coding required and you can use it for so many things imaginable! You got to see it to believe it! I wish MMU has this software its accompanying range of hardware. ^^ Tomorrow I’ll be continuing my 5-days-cramped-to-3-days course on LabView; we’ll be learning how to use LabView with the probes. Yay!