My Car Wash CLD Example

Hello,
I just completed the Car Wash CLD example using a modified producer/consumer with events pattern. I would like any feedback regarding the implementation.
Thanks!
Attachments:
CarWash.zip ‏163 KB

Hopefully this is still helpful. I would've reviewed last week but I just finished this example myself.
I think you'd earn solid marks for coding style. Your code is clean, organized, and well-commented/documented.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to get many of the functions to work as expected... the architecture is also pretty complicated. I noticed a few instances of elements being self-enqueued into the same state machine. This is a bit challenging to follow and (possibly?) debug.
http://linkd.in/mikele

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    Attached is my solution to the CLD Car Wash Sample Exam.  Comments will be appreciated.  The main VI is Main_6.15.10.
    Thanks in advance.
    Attachments:
    CarWash_6.15.10.7z ‏60 KB

    Here are my thoughts....
    Your solution is functional, so there are points for that right away.  Where I think there could be some more work is the architecture.  The exam requirements state that the design must be "easily scalable".  To me that means new states or cycles can be added without much messing about on the block diagram.  If you notice, there are only certain... lets call them Properties of each cycle type.  You could have an array of cycle properties such as cycle time, cycle position switches, cycle name, and flags for standard or deluxe.  Then you could reduce your cycle handling to a single state that just indexes through the cycle array and executed the next appropriately flagged cycle.
    I noticed a Select node in each of your cycle states with constant True and False wired to it.  That is a total of three elements plus two wires that should have just been a Not right off of the Boolean palette.
    You stop the program with a Stop button, yet you allow the user to close the window.  You should consider a Panel Close? event in your event structure to handle a use trying to close the window so that you can execute a graceful stop.
    There is no VI Description filled out for your main VI.  You should also have an icon for the main VI.  The suggested front panel shown in the exam has an icon.
    When your VI is running, you have the scrollbars, toolbar, and menu bar shown.  None of those serves any function for the application, so they should not be shown at runtime.
    The Stop button that is used to stop your application is reset with a Property Node.  Not that there is a performance issue here, but it is generally not good practice to do that unless you are forced to.  Consider just using a Mechanical Action of Latch When Released instead of Switch When Released.  That way you do not need to force the reset to the False state.  Of course, I would rather see something like a Stop state writing to the While Loop conditional terminal.  Also, you could have used a Local Variable to write the initial state of the Sim Switches instead of the Property Node.
    The graders like to see code comments describing your algorithms.  I would say that you need more of those.
    A 10 msec timeout on the event structure is a bit hyper.  Nothing in the system runs that fast, and the only thing you are waiting for is the user.  You could actually have a -1 wired there if you add an event case for the Stop button and Panel Close.  It will greatly reduce the CPU cycles (again not that there is a huge performance issue here).
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  • Car wash CLD exam solution?

    Hello,
      Like a lot of people I'm trying to prepare for the CLD exam.  I'd like feedback on my solution - particularly where the exam graders are likely to take points off. So first I'd like an overal "grade" for what I'm posting here (labview 9).
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    Here are a few more suggestions after reviewing your code.
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    Did you complete it in 4 hours?
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  • CLD Practice Review - Car Wash

    Hey, so I've done all 4 available CLD Prep Exams.  I was curious if I could get some feedback on the Car Wash.  This, imo, was the easiest of them all and so I was wondering what kind of marks I would end up getting with the attached as the end result.  Like, just how many "unnecessary bends" are present in my code?  What does it need?  The code is in 2011 SP1.  Thank you.
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    Car Wash.zip ‏128 KB

    Steve Tomany wrote:
    Great, thanks for the feedback. Any chance you can show me how you use the queue naming and the sub vi in this way? I've played with it but my attempts do nothing to improve the BD.
    Thanks
    Sure,  Here is a copy of my PC loop (events) template with the consumer loop as a sub-vi (Type Defs disconnected)
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  • CLD example review

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  • Car Wash Review

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    Attachments:
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    I am planning on taking my CLD this coming week, and just finished taking this practice exam. Since I studied the car wash and ATM solutions I decided to go for the Sprinkler practie exam. The "Sprinkler CLD.zip" file is the results of 4 dedicated hours of my Saturday.
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