Python Programming for GIS

This week is the start of another class - GIS programming.  Currently, the predominate scripting language for ArcGIS is Python which we will be using for this class.  Learning to program is useful as it helps to automate tasks and make routine functions much faster.

So far, we have been introduced to the concept of pseudocode which is the line-by-line process of thinking about what we want the code to do without writing it in standard Python syntax.  We also ran a Python script in the IDE Spyder which automatically generated a set of folders for out projects in the coming weeks.

The script-generated folders for the class.