Tutorial suggestions

[Guillaume Dargaud]

Hello all,
as the local CVI expert, I've been task to perform a 1/2 day introduction to
CVI to our willing people, the prerequisite being that they know C.

I've done this in the past, creating a UIR with a random plot, its FFT and a
few controls and buttons to act on it. It shows the event programming model
a lot of scientists are not familiar with as well as some of the 'advanced'
CVI libraries.

Anybody has suggestions as to other types of tutorial that may be worth
doing ?
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Guillaume Dargaud
http://www.gdargaud.net/

[jr_2005]

How about a simple one to demonstrate the Timer operation? Say drawing a continuous stripchart from a random signal, while also staying responsive to user buttons would be a good introduction, maybe?

JR

[menchar]

NI offers CVI training.

There's a lot of ground to cover.  I've been using CVI from the beginning and I still am learning new things about it.

I did an in-house CVI training session similar to what you're considering, as I recall I got NI to give me some of their tutorial materials - maybe it was just an outline or a white paper, but it showed me what they cover in their "official" training.  They were kind of miffed that I wasn't letting them do the training, but for the number of students and the expenses involved, I was able to do it myself at a tenth of the cost.  And I bet I was at least a tenth as good as they are 🙂

I started the CVI training with a C refresher course of a few hours - many of the problems encountered in CVI projects are actually C programming issues.    No substitute for good programming practices.

I will look around and see if I have any of my materials left ...

Menchar

[menchar]

Attached is the course outline I used for the CVI class I taught here at Raytheon. 

The outline I used was based on the NI CVI course outline as I recall, which I can't seem to find.    You could try asking NI for the CVI course outline - like I say, they eventually gave it to me 🙂

[Guillaume Dargaud]

Thanks for the stripchart idea, yes that often come in handy.

The UIR and its callback mechanisms are essential, otherwise one might as
well stick to a text-only compiler and linear code.
Threads, IPC and drivers will be too advanced for what I want to teach.
Distribution will be good too.
Thanks for the tips.
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Guillaume Dargaud
http://www.gdargaud.net/