ArcPy for Python Developers using ArcGIS Pro (Udemy.com)

I will be turning 40years old this coming April, 2025. I don't know if I will still be a successful programmer in the future because currently I am a butcher here in Canada. Due to financial troubles this is I become today. When I saw this video tutorial it awakens my blood and childhood dream in Programming specifically in GIS. I hope you can also share more videos relating to GIS Development using ArcGIS Online, Android, JavaScript and others related to ESRI Products. I love GIS programming. I hope we could collaborate someday in God's perfect time. I wish you more success and I am hoping you could help people like me in the future. Long live Learn Programming (LP) Academy. I salute to you all.

I've just completed section 9, so I'm roughly halfway through the course. It's well-organized and structured, both in terms of the lectures, which progress in difficulty, and the resource material. Each lecture includes the relevant scripts, allowing you to easily copy and paste code blocks, saving you time typing. The explanations are quite clear, and Graeme (the lecturer) is excellent, as he promptly answers any student questions. However, I must emphasize that without prior knowledge of at least some Python fundamentals, understanding most of the scripts would be challenging. Even with my existing Python knowledge, I find some code segments tricky to grasp and often need to consult AI chatbots (ChatGPT, Deepseek, etc.) to clarify how certain parts of the scripts work or their purpose. I feel I'm gaining a solid general understanding of Python ArcPy, but I don't yet feel fully confident in writing ArcGIS scripts beyond the simplest ones. As a suggestion for the instructors, I would appreciate not only explanations and examples in the lectures but also exercises and challenges that require us to think and create our own scripts (for simple tasks). This would facilitate more practical learning and consolidate the concepts and tasks explained in the lectures, rather than simply applying the provided scripts. Overall, the course is definitely good and satisfying; it's clearly taught by a highly qualified and skilled professional

I think the Title and description are misleading. This course tackles more the issues of a GIS Professional faces than the problems a Python Developer (using arcpy) wants to address. Want an example? - the majority of the second half of the course is about layout, styling and other things a GIS Professional needs to take care about when delivering his work. However, important topics like raster analysis (and python coding those) are completely left out. Also the code is very redundant in this part. As a python dev, I use geospatial applications to tackle questions like AI-based detection of environmental risks and develop the tools to do so. The styling of a map I leave to GIS professionals. For GIS professional who want to speed up there workflow with Python a little bit I think the course is a good fit.

I wanted to understand and learn more about the ArcGIS PRO new tool from ESRI and improve my Python programming skillset to automate tasks for creating, designing custom GIS apps, also to maintain and managing Geodatabases. This course helped me learn some new ArcPy functions and techniques to improve my python code. Thank you!

The lecture is very well recorded, the sound is clear. One of the first Udemy course that I finished, 5 stars for the content. The only thing I wish that the instructor will do a better is to introduce the overview of the problems before he dives into tutorials. I know he uses the approach learning by doing but sometimes he jumps straight to the tutorial telling you where to click without explaining the problems, the situation, what you have, what you need to do, what is the challenge and how to solve the problem. This makes the tutorial very boring and sleepy to watch. Maybe this is only my personal view.

I have years of python experience using ArcMAP. I used this course to gain familiarization with Arcpy for ArcGIS Pro. I was very impressed with the depth of the course and the examples that were used. This course touched every corner of the Arcpy API as well as helped user gain familiarity with ArcGIS Pro. I highly recommend this course for beginners and ArcMAP 10.x users alike if you wish to use Arcpy in ArcGIS Pro 2.x

I liked the course that brought my understanding of the capabilities of arcpy to a very good level from which I can go my way. I was thankfull for the short response time to the two questions that I had. You certainly will have not many questions as the course is well prepared. Half star minus for the following two points: * I wished to have a 1 or 2 short introductory slides with the tasks and objectives for many of the lectures to get prepared and not just be lead to the goals while working on the lecture. This would also speed up the documentation of the content. * The ?Australien accent of Graeme Browning was a bit difficult to understand in the beginning for my experiences in English, which could be improved by more pronounced speaking. No worries, one gets used to it after the first lectures. Other than that, as a speaker of a German accent I strongly support all existing language accents :)

This is so far my favorite Udemy course. My strength is in GIS, but I am seeing a lot more employers looking for more skill in python which is, frankly, a lot harder to learn. I have dyslexia so learning languages (esp. computer languages) is very difficult. But the number of scripts and techniques in this course create a library to reference and apply to other projects. he instructor was also very responsive to questions which helped me move along and stay interested. I just wish it had more exercises or challenges to test my grasp on what is being taught.

Excellent! As a Python novice mainly capable of understanding/adapting scripts, I would have loved more automation codes with loops (iterations) (for example reading through a list of gdb files) combined with a set of geoprocessing tools (say 4/5 connected tools as in basic model builders). Again, extremely beneficial (time saving and value for money) yet the course requires patience, some personal homework to digest its impressive content!

I found this course very useful as a GIS professional developing an interest in Python programming. I have recently completed a core Python course with Udemy and know ESRI GIS well so this course was a great next step for me. It was pleasing the course touched on the application of Python throughout ArcGIS Pro rather than the core language itself (for which there are other courses). Graeme's instruction is clear and concise and easy to follow along to. I would have liked to see more exercises so if you are new to the Python language (or ESRI GIS products) then code along with Graeme rather than download the chapter's code for you'll get much more from this course. Don't be afraid to go to Python.org too to follow up on some key learnings. Something for everyone in this course. All the best. Chris.