Cooper Week 6

Chapter 9

 

I didn’t have too much trouble with the tutorials. I did start to notice that the directions were a lot less “hold your hand”, which I suppose I have noticed the last few chapters. But I especially felt with this chapter it was on me to remember how to find specific functions and what buttons I needed to click to get certain things to pop-up. I didn’t have too many issues throughout the chapter. In 9-4, I think I got a little lost going back and forth between tables and what exactly I was trying to achieve. 

Chapter 10

 

I didn’t have any trouble in 10-1. In 10-2 however, I thought I did some things slightly off in terms of the Kernal Density tool. I was still able to get the symbology to look similar in the end but not what appeared in the book exactly. However, I realized I had to relayer some things on the contents pane and was able to get my map to look like the example in the book. I didn’t run into any issues adding the thresholds either. 10-3 didn’t yield any comments or concerns. 

Chapter 11

 

The keyboard shortcuts in 11-1 were very useful. I know I get frustrated with using just the mouse sometimes so I feel like the shortcuts were a little more accurate. When trying to change the vertical exaggeration, this function would not pop up, so I moved onto the next step of the tutorial. I did get the illumination to change, and there was a difference but it didn’t seem too dramatic. I didn’t run into any issues until 11-5. I think that the Duplicate Vertical tool was acting a little glitchy because it kept closing before I could even change any of the field or hit duplicate. I eventually got it (I think). I think through the glitching too many floors were added, but I was afraid to redo it and not be abel to get the Duplicate Vertical appeal to work again. I did get the slider tool to work though! I didn’t have any issues with the rest of the tutorial after this though. I think the most trouble I had this whole chapter was on 11-7, attempting to get the animations to work properly. I tried this several times following the instructions, and the add animation button was always greyed out and I am not sure why. I was able to get the timeline to pop up but couldn’t get things added like it was said in the book. I asked someone who was in the lab for help and they couldn’t get it to work either.