Chapter 4:
I found this chapter to be very easy compared to last week. Everything was very straightforward and easy to understand. However, there were still a few parts I found difficult, like when I had to insert a code. The code given didn’t work and I had to ask another person for help, eventually after trial and error we figured out what was wrong and I smoothly went through the rest of chapter 4. I think the overall goal for this chapter was to teach us how to use the python coding and how to view attributes. (I’m not sure if the book or site is out of date, but it kept saying for the code to put robbery and burglaries instead of robberies or burglaries).
Chapter 5:
initially when I looked at chapter 5 I thought it was going to take forever, but thankfully most of the tutorials were only like 4 steps. This chapter was pretty chill; I wasn’t completely mind boggled at the random instructions, everything was kind of just right where it said it was and I liked that. All except for 5.5, that tutorial had me completely stumped. It was the longest tutorial, and it was about going to websites and downloading files, then I needed to go to excel and do stuff on there just to go back to ArcGIS and do more stuff on there. Overall, I’d say this chapter was like a 6/10 on difficulty (3 of the points coming from 5.5 alone). I also kept getting annoyed that it would go “open the attribute table, not sort it, ok now close it” just for me to never use it again.
Chapter 6:
I’d say chapter 6 was about a 4/10 (on difficulty), the steps were laid out better than the others and at the end of each like tutorial there were pictures showing me what mine should look like. Although there were times, I had little mistakes and confused myself the chapter went by smoothly. Most of my confusions were just because of user error (which is why I’d say it’s a 4/10, the faults were mine not confusing instructions). I also think that this chapter was a bit length though, it took me a bit longer than expected. That might just be because I was being asked to use new tools constantly and was trying to understand what I was actually doing.
