The first lab of GIS consisted of learning how to operate and understand ArcMap. We created a map of the countries and saw the populations of them in an attribute table. We had step by step instructions on how to go through each process like "finding the attribute table" and "changing the colors of the cities". This assignment was pretty difficult for me over all. I had a lot of problems downloading the data at first, then just figuring out the rest took much more time than I thought. Overall I think I will get use to the system as time goes on and it will get easier.