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GIS / Data Analyst Tools: ArcGIS Pro Toolboxes In the government world (US) and in my experience, ArcGIS software is utilized a lot. One thing I like about ArcGIS Pro is the built-in Python Notebooks and the ability to create Python Toolbox Built-In Python Notebooks Python Toolbox: What I find nice about this setup is that I like to do the prototyping in the Notebooks and then transfer the code etc to an ArcGIS Pro Python Toolbox. Toolbox: In the images above, I am actually working on a side hustle for a county. I am working on transforming their old GIS Website to an ArcGIS Online website, but their old website has thousands upon thousands of tax cards connected to their parcels and they would like these cards with their new website. Their tax cards are in jpg format, but they want the cards in pdf and the cards that belong to each other, they want combined into one pdf. The place that used to manage their website used to do all this for them, which cost them a lot of money per year, but the county wants a nice workflow built so their GIS person can manage the new ArcGIS website and be able to convert the tax cards to pdf and attach them to the correct parcel twice a year. This is where the Python Toolbox comes into play. The Toolbox you see in the image will do all that for them. Once the tool is run, all the GIS person will need to do is push their feature layer to ArcGIS Online with just a few clicks. So, what are you waiting for? Start playing with Python and start building some tools. On that note, keep practicing!!! #ArcGISPro #ESRI #Python #Tools #data #gis #gisdev #gisanalyst #analyst #dataanalyst

I really do not know why colleges utilizes C++ to teach Algorithms and Data Structures and then create complex code that takes someone like me to decipher to help the student. I say this because most students that take this class has only had two classes in C++ and they move so fast through those classes the brain does not have a second to ponder on the concepts. Do they think the students really have a grasp on OOP and utilizing lists with iterators, vectors, deep copy and operator overloading and then trying to solve the algorithms in the operator overload for factoring polynomials? Heck, some of these students just got by Pre-Calculus. Just saying there is a much better way to teach Algorithms and Data Structures where the students actually learn. Rant Done...🤣 I feel so much better... LOL X is actually therapeutic lol With that said, C++ is a fun and expressive language. #cplusplus #code #algorithms #datastructures #programming #computersciencestudents #computerscience ☕️💯🤣