Dilli - I usually say to them - don't ignore or discount your past experience - whether in health, business, whatever... tie that in to your newfound interest in GIS and use it to bring those skills to your GIS training.
Hello Joe, I have been wanting to get into a career involving GIS for a long time. I am 35 and a U.S. Navy Veteran. After lots of research I am at a point where I can choose to attend the GIS online program at Arizona State University (B.S.) or the certificate online program at Penn State. I already have a B.S. in Business and Forestry but am not working in the forestry field and was hoping you could give me some advice in choosing between the two programs. I know I need ESRI experience and Python. Both programs give exposure to Python….not so sure about ESRI. thanks for any advice :)
Ben greetings and I salute you. We have some Python and Jupyter notebooks lessons on learn.arcgis.com that I recommend. I work with Penn State and ASU both and have great respect for both programs. I don't think you can go wrong with either one. Also the Esri MOOC www.esri.com/mooc there is a coding related MOOC.
Ben - you can run ArcGIS Pro natively on Windows. Many people where I work have Surface Pro or Dells or others. About 1/4 have Macs .. but they need an emulator to run Esri ArcGIS Pro on it.. so you are booting in Windows - parallels or bootcamp - on the Mac. GIS is pretty memory and graphics intensive so any investment in a decent machine will be a good one. But - that said, I am running ArcGIS Pro for example on an old Surface Pro with a keyboard and it runs just fine.
Dilli - I usually say to them - don't ignore or discount your past experience - whether in health, business, whatever... tie that in to your newfound interest in GIS and use it to bring those skills to your GIS training.
I guess it is pretty off topic but do anybody know a good place to watch new movies online?
Great stuffs. Adaptability is really necessary for dynamic nature of this profession.
What are your suggestions for those students who will jump into the GIS sector from other academic background/professions?
great stuff Prof Kerski. Thanks alot
Hello Joe, I have been wanting to get into a career involving GIS for a long time. I am 35 and a U.S. Navy Veteran. After lots of research I am at a point where I can choose to attend the GIS online program at Arizona State University (B.S.) or the certificate online program at Penn State. I already have a B.S. in Business and Forestry but am not working in the forestry field and was hoping you could give me some advice in choosing between the two programs. I know I need ESRI experience and Python. Both programs give exposure to Python….not so sure about ESRI. thanks for any advice :)
Ben greetings and I salute you. We have some Python and Jupyter notebooks lessons on learn.arcgis.com that I recommend. I work with Penn State and ASU both and have great respect for both programs. I don't think you can go wrong with either one. Also the Esri MOOC www.esri.com/mooc there is a coding related MOOC.
@@Our__Earth thank you so much for the advice Joe :)
I love the REO quote 😂
And he actually said y’all correctly 😂
Thanks y'all and REO rules!
Is there a particular Laptop that would best fit for this line of work?
Ben - you can run ArcGIS Pro natively on Windows. Many people where I work have Surface Pro or Dells or others. About 1/4 have Macs .. but they need an emulator to run Esri ArcGIS Pro on it.. so you are booting in Windows - parallels or bootcamp - on the Mac. GIS is pretty memory and graphics intensive so any investment in a decent machine will be a good one. But - that said, I am running ArcGIS Pro for example on an old Surface Pro with a keyboard and it runs just fine.
REO Speedwagon? Boy, we're old.
Hooray for REO!
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