u/Key-Pea-5909

I'm starting to put together a porfolio of my work, and was wondering if it's appropriate/useful to include projects I've made during ESRI MOOCs in my portfolio? Thanks!

I'm fairly new to GIS, and even newer to QGIS. I'm trying to drape a basemap over a DEM, but when I do it the basemap is barely visible. I have a multidirectional hillshade DEM that was clipped to just show a small town in the Sierra Navada in California. I've included two screenshots to show how I have them styled. Let me know if I could provide any other info that would be useful. Any help would be much appreciated.

https://preview.redd.it/z7eljshb6z2h1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=2aa83e476b6db313977be8eeb70e9bf92dbe78bc

https://preview.redd.it/g4nihshb6z2h1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=aa28d1d000266abf110c4b8d75ca74535efe7c8a

I'm very new to python, and I'm looking for some help understanding this error message. How do I know what "" is referring to? Script and error below. Thanks!

import arcpy
import os

myFc = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)
addr_point = "C:\\Users\\b_lue\\Desktop\\GIS\\CCSF\\GIS112\\Labs\\Lab4\\Lab4BAL.gdb\\addr_point"
cur = arcpy.SearchCursor(myFc)


for row in cur:
    if row.STATUS == "U":
        arcpy.AddError( "Match unsuccesful")
        print ("Match unsuccesful")
        
    else:
        arcpy.AddMessage("Match succesful")
        arcpy.SetParameterAsText(1, myFc)
        print ("Match succesful")

        proj = arcpy.mp.ArcGISProject("CURRENT")
        newmap = proj.listMaps()[0]
        lyrAP = newmap.addDataFromPath(addr_point)

    #av = proj.avtiveView
    #av.camera.setExtent(av.getLayerExtent(lyrAP, False, True))
    #av.camera.scale = 12000

    #del proj

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\b_lue\Desktop\GIS\CCSF\GIS112\Labs\Lab4\zoomtool.py", line 6, in <module>
    cur = arcpy.SearchCursor(myFc)
  File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy\__init__.py", line 1277, in SearchCursor
    return gp.searchCursor(dataset, where_clause, spatial_reference, fields, sort_fields)
  File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy\geoprocessing\_base.py", line 393, in searchCursor
    self._gp.SearchCursor(*gp_fixargs(args, True)))
OSError: "" does not exist

I’m currently learning GIS, I’m about to get a certificate from my local community college, and I’m thinking about taking a couple of QGIS courses that will provide me with a QGIS certificate. It would be around $300 for the courses to get the certificate. Up to this point I’ve only used free resources, and I know the QGIS training manual is pretty thorough and I could learn a lot through that, so I’m wondering if it’s worth it to pay the money to get the certificate? Thanks