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Elena Olufson

Template:Lenaolufson

Week 3 Full Feedback

In addition to the early “good habit” notes previously given below, the following notes complete my response to your submissions:

• All of your command-line answers showed the correct results. Good job!
• One suggestion for presenting either code or plain data: if you begin a wiki line with an empty space, the text that follows it will be format in a “fixed width” format that fits code or plain data better. Give it a try and see how it looks to you.
• Regarding your shared journal entry, practice is definitely the way to get more comfortable with the command line. Allow yourself to make mistakes—with the commands that I have shown you so far, mistakes will be harmless and you can learn from them. There is definitely an unprecedented level of detail and precision involved when working with computers in this manner; but, as your chosen quote says, there is ultimately an art to it. Many arts require the same level of precision—you can think of coding precision as a very similar kind of exactitude.

—Dondi (talk) 16:52, 26 September 2015 (PDT)

Week 3 Early Feedback

My week 3 grading is not finished, but based on your week 2 feedback and what I have seen so far in Week 3, I thought I would chime in early so you can try to address these by the week 4 assignment.

• Good job in supplying a summary with all of your wiki contributions in Week 3! This is a good habit to maintain throughout the semester. You also accomplished this with a few more edits, which is also something to reinforce.
• Your Week 3 assignment still did not use the template that you’ve created; do make sure that you do so in Week 4 and beyond, because it contains all of the useful links that are checked for every assignment.
  • Please see Dr. Dahlquist’s instructions above for using the template in your journal pages.
  • Also make sure to add a link to your User Page within the template.
• Week 3 does not include the Journal Entry category either.
• Finally, a lab notebook aspect continues to be missing from your Week 3 submission. Your responses are almost entirely just the answers, with no notes on your thought process. As the computing assignments get harder, you will find this to be more and more crucial. Please give it a shot for Week 4.

That’s not everything yet, but I figured these were good points to make so that you can get a jump on them for Week 4.

—Dondi (talk) 09:18, 24 September 2015 (PDT)

Week 2 Feedback

• Although, the Week 2 scores have not yet been posted, I want to give you feedback on the assignment that you can incorporate to your your Week 3 submission.
• First, thank you for submitting your assignment on time.
• Your translations are correct; although it would have been better for completeness to go ahead and translate the rest of the sequence after the stop codon, in this case.
• You did not include anything by the way of an electronic notebook for this assignment. Although this assignment was pretty straightforward, you still need to document the process of what you did to arrive at the answers, not just supply the answers. Please be sure to do this for your Week 3 submission.
• You wrote something in the Summary field for 7/14 contributions between the Week 1 and Week 2 deadlines. We are aiming to do this 100% of the time, so this needs a little work. Also, you completed the full assignment in only 3 edits to the wiki. You will want to consider saving your changes more frequently so that the granularity of the changes is smaller.
• For each week's assignment, you will need to create links from your User page to that week's assignment and to your individual and shared journal entries, as well as a link back from your individual journal entry and to the category "Journal Entry".
  • You have actually created all of these links on your template page (by borrowing the formatting from a fellow student, I see). However, what is missing is that you need to actually invoke the template on your user page and individual journal entry pages.
    • To do so, you need to use the syntax {{Lenaolufson}}, with the curly brackets, on your user page and on your Lenaolufson Week 2 page.
    • You could even invoke your template on all of your future individual journal assignment pages now, so you would never forget to do it again and would also avoid losing points for not providing the links.
• If you begin a line with a single space character, the text will appear in a fixed-width font, which is better for representing nucleic acid and protein sequences because they will then line up with each other better.
• With regards to your comments on your shared journal entry, you will see from the other students' comments, that others had issues with the Kaji and Kaji paper. It is sometimes the shortest papers that are the most difficult to understand!

— Kdahlquist (talk) 23:32, 18 September 2015 (PDT)

Week 1 Feedback

• I answered your question on my User talk page.
• The scores have not been posted yet, but I wanted to give you feedback on your Week 1 Assignment.
• Except for the email to Dr. Dahlquist and me, your assignment was submitted on time overall. Many of our assignments will be multipart like this one, so getting into a checklist habit will help you cover all the bases.
• Speaking of a checklist approach, your assignment is complete except for the items that I list below. I particularly like how you took advantage of external links in your work history and other areas of your page. You wrote something in the Summary field most of the time, although some were just generic indications of what sections got changed. See if you can get more descriptive as you get the hang of this; you’ll find that it makes your work more deliberate.
• Missing items:
  1. You did not indicate a snail mail address; withholding it on purpose is fine (say, for privacy reasons due to an off-campus address), but just as with the email to Dr. Dahlquist and me, we would have preferred an indication to that effect, to differentiate between forgetting to do it vs. not forgetting but preferring not to supply it.
  2. You defined headings down to just one level. Try to do multiple levels, at least 3 when appropriate, so that you can see how the headings give your page an outline structure.
  3. You created numbered lists as instructed, although in the Personal Interests section, with those single-item lists, a bulleted format would have been more appropriate. Even though you are checking off subtasks in this assignment, ideally you are also performing them in a context that matches their purpose well.
  4. Similarly, you did technically create and use a template, but said template does not really hold content that benefits from template automation. Ideally, your template contains something that will genuinely save you a lot of retyping in the future. The example that we mentioned in class was a template holding a quick-reference list for all of your pages—that will be very useful as a template because you will want to include that in every page you create, and will be a pain to retype every time. So, consider those practical elements when choosing to practice the basic wiki skills. That way it isn’t just a rote exercise and is actually something is useful for the rest of the semester.
• You will have the opportunity to make up some of the points you missed by completing the tasks listed above by the Week 2 deadline, midnight on September 15.

—Dondi (talk) 17:14, 9 September 2015 (PDT)

I have also answered your question on my user talk page. — Kdahlquist (talk) 23:18, 10 September 2015 (PDT)