LabVIEW Basics is a tutorial series designed to familiarize users with the LabVIEW editor and basic LabVIEW programming concepts as quickly as possible. New users are encourage to go through all of the LabVIEW Basics tutorials in order. If you're already familiar with LabVIEW feel free to skip around and use these tutorials as a refresher.

LabVIEW is a graphical programming language used by professional scientists and engineers as well as students,…

01 | Introduction

LabVIEW is an application development environment for visual programming. The LabVIEW environment is used for…

02 | The LabVIEW Environment

A LabVIEW application's users interface is built using controls and indicators. Controls allow the user to in…

03 | Controls and Indicators

LabVIEW supports many different data types including booleans, numerics, strings arrays and many more. LabVIEW…

04 | Data Types

LabVIEW uses a Dataflow model for executing code. In a LabVIEW application, a block diagram element can o…

05 | Dataflow

The LabVIEW environment is full of features, but can be a overwhelming at first. Using palettes, **search…

06 | Finding What You're Looking For

LabVIEW provides many options for debugging code. A subset of basic debugging methods are covered below.

07 | Debugging

Feeling lost? Help is never far away in LabVIEW.

08 | Help!

While loops allow portions of an application to execute repeatedly until a certain condition is met.

09 | While Loops

For loops allow portions of an application to execute repeatedly. For loops are commonly used to iterate over…

10 | For Loops

Data can be passed into and out of both for loops and while loops. There are several options for controlling …

11 | Passing Data Into and Out of Loops

Case structures can be used to selectively execute code based on the value of a condition.

12 | Case Structures

Creating modular code makes applications easier to develop, debug, and maintain. In this section we'll learn a…

13 | Modular Code