Visual Programming With Hp Vee (Hewlett-Packard Professional Books)

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Summary: Visual Programming with HP VEE, 3rd Ed.
Review: As claimed by the author, this book is really the "fastest and easiest way" to learn HP VEE. Perhaps, the software itself is easy to use. For more advanced topics, consult the VEE product documentation. Note that the new VEE has built-in MATLAB scripts and signal processing toolbox which are not covered in the third edition. But the book already provides a solid foundation to explore other new features of the software including MATLAB functions. My students manage to build test and measurement application less than a week when using VEE in conjunction with this book!

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Summary: Not worth the price.
Review: I'm ticked off and I hav'nt even started the book! For the price of this book the publisher could have at least included the evaluation software CD. There are 341 pages counting overview and checklists in each chapter. There are 45 more pages in Appendux B: "Additional Lab Exercises". Since these exercises are added on the end of the book, I would expect them to be more complex than those within the previous chapters. An apple counting program is not my Idea of a program that I could use in test equipment instrumentation. OK thats it. I'm done grouching and off to download the software.

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Summary: Visual Programming with HP VEE, 3rd Ed.
Review: Provides little information beyond what is in original software documentation. Information is presented as a series of lab excercises. No information on how to write instrument panel drivers.

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Summary: It's bad
Review: This book is barely worth the paper it was printed on. First of all, it for HP Vee version 5.0. If you're looking for something to cover the newer Agilent 6.0 release, this is not it. The author does not go into Vee's sometimes quirky file handling (eg places where you need quotes and double slashes'\\' in the path), he gives extremely generic instrument control examples and no serial port command examples. Need to know how to print off test data sheets? This book won't tell you. Need to know what the EOL ON or EOL OFF means in an instrument transaction? Don't look in the book. After reading the book, I came away with the feeling it was more of a high priced sales brochure of what Vee can do rather than a reference guide to Vee programming.

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Summary: It's bad
Review: This book is barely worth the paper it was printed on. First of all, it for HP Vee version 5.0. If you're looking for something to cover the newer Agilent 6.0 release, this is not it. The author does not go into Vee's sometimes quirky file handling (eg places where you need quotes and double slashes'\\' in the path), he gives extremely generic instrument control examples and no serial port command examples. Need to know how to print off test data sheets? This book won't tell you. Need to know what the EOL ON or EOL OFF means in an instrument transaction? Don't look in the book. After reading the book, I came away with the feeling it was more of a high priced sales brochure of what Vee can do rather than a reference guide to Vee programming.