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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| LabVIEW Sucks | |
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| Don't Buy This Book | |
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| The Soap Box | |
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| What This Book Is | |
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| Companion Web Site | |
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| LabVIEW Rocks | |
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| Why Does LabVIEW Rock? | |
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| What Advantages Does This Bring to the Developer? | |
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| How Can Good Design Leverage These Advantages? | |
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| Software Design Principles | |
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| Why is Software Complex? | |
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| Coupling and Cohesion | |
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| Information Hiding and Encapsulation | |
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| Examples of Coupling, Cohesion, and Information Hiding | |
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| Bad (Tight) Coupling | |
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| Good (Loose) Coupling | |
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| Bad (Weak) Cohesion | |
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| Good (Strong) Cohesion | |
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| Bad Information Hiding | |
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| Good Information Hiding | |
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| Abstraction | |
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| LabVIEW Component Oriented Design (LCOD) | |
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| Components | |
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| So What Is a Component? | |
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| Design | |
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| Object Oriented Design (OOD) | |
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| Top-Down Design | |
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| Bottom-Up Design | |
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| Design Patterns | |
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| Pattern Examples | |
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| LCOD Implementation | |
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| Component Mechanisms | |
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| Message Sending | |
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| All About Enumerated Types | |
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| 101 Things to Do with an Enumerated Type | |
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| Strict Type Definitions | |
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| Persistent Local Storage | |
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| The Basic Structure of a Component | |
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| LCOD Complementary Techniques | |
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| State Machines | |
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| State Machine Example--Washing Machine | |
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| Graphical User Interface (GUI) Design and Prototyping (UI Controller [right angle bracket right angle bracket] Message Queue Pattern) | |
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| Stack Queue Component | |
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| User Interface Control Wrapper VI | |
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| LCOD User Interface Example Diagram | |
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| Abstraction in the Code, Detail Outside the Code | |
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| Section Key Files | |
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| Error Handling | |
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| Pre- and Postconditions: Check What Comes In and What Goes Out | |
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| Preconditions | |
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| Postconditions | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reuse | |
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| Opportunistic Reuse | |
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| Planned Reuse | |
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| Merge VIs | |
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| VI Templates | |
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| Software Engineering Essentials | |
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| The Usual Suspects | |
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| Requirements Document | |
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| Quote/Project Validation | |
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| Target Specification | |
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| Test Plan | |
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| Software Architecture Document | |
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| Software Construction--Build | |
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| Test--Customer Acceptance | |
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| Pictures Tell a Thousand Words | |
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| Diagrams--Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs) | |
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| State Transition Diagrams | |
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| Homemade Diagrams | |
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| Checklists | |
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| Code Reviews | |
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| The Project Is Dead, Time for a Postmortem | |
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| Metrics | |
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| It's All About Style | |
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| Why Do We Need Standards Anyway? | |
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| Block Diagram | |
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| General Layout Standards | |
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| Wiring Standards | |
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| Labeling Standards | |
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| Self-Documenting Example | |
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| Front Panel | |
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| General Front Panel Standards | |
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| Public Front Panel Standards | |
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| Private Front Panel Standards | |
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| Icon and Connector Standards | |
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| Organization of Files | |
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| The Journey | |
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| Agreeing on the Destination (Requirements) | |
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| Planning Your Route (Design) | |
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| Code and Fix | |
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| Abstracting Components from Requirements | |
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| Using Patterns to Help the Design Process | |
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| Building the Prototype | |
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| Build | |
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| Code and Fix | |
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| LCOD | |
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| Hardware | |
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| Detail Outside the Code | |
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| Error Handling | |
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| State Machines | |
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| Reuse | |
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| Style | |
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| Uh-Oh We've Been Given the Wrong Directions | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |
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| Other LabVIEW Books | |