GIS I: Week 3 ArcMap Tutorial

So.  What a mess. Right?  My first impulse is just to complain about the outdated tutorial, which is probably what everyone has done, so I'll start with the good stuff.

There were some great moments of "OH! That did what?!" which were awesome- and proof of how great this program is.

The Updates PDF was helpful, however it did nothing to assist me when it came to FINDING things that had changed from the previous versions.  There were entire steps that, while still intact, you had to do something different to reach the menu you needed, and that wasn't in the updates pdf. 

This was a hugely annoying project because of that, an i honestly feel i'd have learned more if I had just spent time playing with the product on my own, instead I spent all my time trying to figure out where a drop-down arrow was and just sticking so close to the guidelines that I couldn't tell you WHAT I just did.  So much so that when i messed something up (like the map on the lower right for instance)  I had no idea how to FIX it, an was too scared to push any buttons an mess it up further.