Labview and student-prices

Question

i started using labVIEW about 5 months ago in order to made a program to
control a philips xl30 sem microscope (with labview 4.0 on win31) and
another to register the subpics taken from the sem to build large-size
images (in labview 5.1 on win95).
i study computer engeneering on university of modena (italy) while my thesis
stage (with socrates european project) is held at the institute of material
research IMO in diepenbeek (belgium)
i am really entusiast about labview and how is made, i think also is a very
fast tool for prototyping programs that maybe for performance reasons have
to be developed with other languages; concepts like modularity and
code-reuse seems very easy to reach respect many other languages (i mean
usually is
not so easy just take program parts from other sources and put
everything togheter in a short time).
since i would love to experiment labview programming for my personal fun i
am interested to know if for commercial packages like the internet-toolkit
are avaible special student prices.
federico fantini

Answer 1

> It's not a full version, but it's only missing a couple of things (ie
> Active X support). And it includes Internet Toolkit & HiQ 4.
"Unable to link to external code via DLLs and Code Interface Nodes"
i don't care about microsoft-only technology but since student edition has
NO POSSIBILITY to link code from outside i think you loose everything
(suppose you have a free 32bit .dll that do a lots of beautiful things, it's
very easy to integrate good and FAST code in a labVIEW program so you can
always have critical stuff made by fast code and still make 90% of your
program in plain G).
it's good for student to learn labVIEW but i think in this case it's good
for university and not single persons.
from the faq you get that "LVSE will work only with Nationa
l Instruments
hardware" , this seems more a move like 'we want university buy OUR HARDWARE
to train students' that a way to give a cheap labview
anyway the product is great and it's the reason i would love to use it for
have fun while programming...but i think that at 495$ the internet toolkit
is too expensive for me
i have also see that it's impossible to buy a linux student edition of
labview while it's possible the academic contract..maybe ni think that every
student have to run windows at home ?
federico fantini