Learning Python with GIS: A Lecture for the Absolute Beginner: Part 4 of 5 (Defs demo, Looping)

This video is part 4 of a 5 video series that teaches basic computer programming concepts using the Python computer programming language. This video teaches basic computer programming concepts using only the ArcGIS Pro Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software environment. If you are interested in GIS and learning how to get started with computer programming, this video series will help you grow your skill set.

The five videos discuss the following topics:

Video 4 (this video): Basic Computer Programming Concepts: Conditional Statements and Definitions demonstration in ArcGIS Pro software, Looping concept discussion and demonstrations of this concept in ArcGIS Pro software.

Video 1: Video Overview, Scope of computer programming concepts discussed in the five part video series (Variables, Lists, Conditional Statements, Definitions, Looping, and Modules ) What is Python, A Tour of Python in ArcGIS Pro (ArcGIS Pro ships with Python IDLE, Python window, Export Model Scripts, Field Calculator, Label Class, Notebooks in ArcGIS Pro (v2.5) (Jupyter Notebooks), Python Manager, ArcPy)

Video 2: Basic Computer Programming Concepts: Variables, Operators, String Concatenation and demonstrations of these concepts in ArcGIS Pro software.

Video 3: Basic Computer Programming Concepts: Lists and demonstrations of this concept in ArcGIS Pro software, Conditional Statements and Definitions concept discussion.

Video 5: Modules and Imports concept discussion and demonstrations of these concept in ArcGIS Pro software, What Next after these videos, and video summary.

Links used in the videos:

The ArcGIS Pro .aprx file, datasets, and scripts used in the videos can be downloaded from here:

Calculate Field examples webpage:

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[lekongwenge]

Hey! Thanks for uploading these tutorials. I hope you have more coming

[Soppphia]

Thank you very much for this information.

[isabellelimoges]

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[badjibassaseba]

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[xA]

A minor correction about while-loops. The loop continues while the condition is met, that is to say, until the condition is not met. In the example from the video, the while-loop is performed while incrementvalue < stopvalue. This is equivalent to saying the while-loop runs until incrementvalue >= stopvalue.

[hafis]

why i cannot download .aprx file, datasets, and scripts