Does anybody know about ESRI/ARC and GIS?
I am grad school right now and was told I needed to take classes in GIS to learn ESRI for my career interest...geography, planning, and demography.
I got to say that I find ESRI and GIS to be an absolutely TERRIBLE subject and system.
This is completely un-user friendly with poor directions, the labs take hours, the book makes all kinds of assumptions about what you should know and skips steps.
The worst thing is that when you ask others they just say "well yea the system can be this way but you just have to play around," to me ESRI seems to be something designed by people who are EASports rejects.
I was wondering if any of you are familiar with ESRI and GIS and if you have had similar experiences, what you recommend, and if for my field I really need this or this is something I can skip.