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Similar to Neil’s reply, at Marist (just down the road!) I use mostly home-cooked exercises.
The only required text is Mark Monmonier’s “How to Lie with Maps”. I like it because it’s completely software agnostic, and it covers a lot of ground I’m not able to cover in-class.
It’s inexpensive, and it’s a short 200 pages. Both of which appeal to the students.
Last semester I had an optional text – Kurt Menke’s “Discover QGIS 3.x”, as we had to be prepared to go fully virtual if need be.
Prior years I’ve used the “Getting to Know” books as optional texts.
These are optional because I do not use any of the exercises in class. But some students might want to take a deeper dive into the technical aspects of the software on their own.
- Don
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At Vassar we've been using the opposite approach, going with academic textbooks and other readings with mostly home-cooked exercises. When I taught at U. of New Haven though we used the "Getting to Know..." books for the intro class and
that worked fine.
Neil Curri, GISP
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