automatically find a value

[P@Anand]

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@meganme wrote:

Thanks. I suppose what I'm trying to avoid is to embarkn on a task to learn only to find that it has little relevance... time is precious.

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If you want to buy a costly stuff you have to spend that much money so if you spend good time you would be gaining good knowledge then you don't have to worry about the time. Just a suggestion its upto you. 🙂

[meganme]

Of "relevance" is learning it efficiently, i.e., for the tasks I need it for. My job revolves around lecturing and undergraduate and postgraduate student project supervision, with research on top of this. I've been using LabVIEW as a more time effcient tool to process research data, hence my statement about learning time been limited. However, if you are telling me that it would be beneficial (in the long term) to learn how to program from scratch then that is something I'd have to try and work into existing demands. I appreciate that what I've learnt so far (mainly self taught though not to a high standard—the vi attached to the earlier post no doubt attests to this) is limited, but this sort of thing has saved so much—and I mean a ridiculous amount (previously all data were processed through Excel)—time.

I wasn't expecting anybody to do anything for me, but I was rather hoping that somebody might be able to politely nudge me in the right direction.

Many thanks,

Jason 

[meganme]

Surely saying that one doesn't have to worry about 'time' is just silly?

[P@Anand]

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@meganme wrote:

Surely saying that one doesn't have to worry about 'time' is just silly?

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I am not getting the right meaning of your statement but I would not worry about my time until its getting spent in the right way.

[dkfire]

Have you tried taking some of the online courses ?

There is also some tutorials online here at this site, try searching for them.

[GregFreeman]

Gosh, in my opinion some of the answers on this thread are a bit harsh and not very helpful. I think they could be worded in a more encouraging way. How quickly we are to forget what it is like to learn from scratch. Instead of somewhat scolding the OP, how bout we give some more specific examples on what he can do to learn. The idea to take the tutorials would be a good first step. It is important to learn the basics because that will give you the foundation to think through the different options available to solve the problem. Just trying to code to solve very specific problems will cause long term problems where you know all these bits and pieces but can't stick them all together. You will have lots of basic small programs and at some point you will most likely want to consolidate them but be unable to do so. That is one of the motivations for learning the basics. That said, anyone in the real world knows time is an issue. I would suggest the tutorials because you may be able to answer your own question after having a more basic understanding of the basic functions available to you such as less than and greater than functions. Experiment with these to see if you can find a way to do this. I promise you will retain the knowledge better if you work on it and ask questions as you go. Explore the pallettes and look for functions that seem applicable. If you press control H you can open the context help which will give you details on the function you are hovering over with your mouse. Anyways, hope that helps

[meganme]

Hi Greg, and thanks for your response... was starting to think I was been overly sensitive!

What you said makes good sense, and I'll perservere along that route.

Jason

[crossrulz]

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@meganme wrote:

Hi Greg, and thanks for your response... was starting to think I was been overly sensitive!

What you said makes good sense, and I'll perservere along that route.

Jason

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No, some of the people were being pretty harsh.  Anyways, here's a link to LabVIEW 101.  I haven't looked through it much, but it seems like a good place to get started.  I encourage you to invest some of your time to learn how to do things right.  Your return on investment will be quick and long lasting.

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

Harsh to suggest that it is worth it to make the effort to learn LabVIEW?

Like anything in life, some effort must be expended to get results.

In the end, isn't that what you are doing by suggesting that the OP goes to LabVIEW 101?

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

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for(imstuck) wrote:

Gosh, in my opinion some of the answers on this thread are a bit harsh and not very helpful.

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He wants to use LabVIEW for his teaching, yet wasn't convinced that making the effort to learn LabVIEW was of "relevance".

It simply does not make any sense to me.