Getting to Know ArcGIS chapter 1 and 2

Chapter one of the ArcGIS book is a refreshing review of a lot of things we have learned in class so far this semester in Mitchell’s book and class lectures.  A lot of the material on data and features are all similar to what we did in Geography 353, which I completed last spring.  Chapter 2 shifts a little more a first to the types of GIS programs that are available to purchase and what the differences are between the applications, and what they do.  It was interesting to learn about the different applications .