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Week 3 Feedback

• Everything was turned in on time—thank you! You also fulfilled the “good habit/best practice” aspects of the assignment, including supplying comments for all 21 of the listed journal edits.
• You supplied an electronic notebook with this assignment, and it provided some good details in the spirit of openness and reproducibility, the values that we are after here. Keep it up, and always keep these questions in mind when journaling: Can someone reading your notebook get a clear understanding of what you did for this assignment? Do they have enough information to replicate the results that you posted on your journal page?
• Your hack-a-page work certainly fulfilled the instructions—and now we know what you really want to be doing!
• Your list of links was quite thorough, including the cgi-bin links for the reading frames, which I was hoping that students would catch. However…
• …I was also hoping that the values after seqdna in those links would be recognized by students as IDs. You listed element IDs, which are technically correct, but as noted above, there were other IDs on this page beyond those kinds.
• Your shared journal’s chosen quote captures one of the biggest adjustments that people need to make when learning to work with computers—detail and specificity are indeed paramount in computing, beyond what we are used to in other endeavors. We all have frustrating moments when we realize that a lot of time might have been lost due to a single punctuation mark. It sounds like you aren’t deterred, and continue to seek more knowledge of the functions that are available to you on the command line.

—Dondi (talk) 00:21, 24 September 2017 (PDT)

Week 2 Feedback

• Thank you for completing your assignment on time.
• You wrote something in the summary field for 19/19 (100%) saves in the period of review--keep up the good work!
• You made 12 saves to your Week 2 page, which is in the expected range for this assignment.
• You hit all the marks for this week's assignment--here is some minor feedback so you can "up your game".
  • Since you wrote a program to complete this week's assignment, you should have also included the code, either as a file (if long) or copied directly onto the page.
  • How did you know that your code was correct? Did you check your work by doing it by hand? Did you write any tests?
  • Your notebook gives a good "free text" description of how you went about constructing your code. To be complete in your documentation, in addition to providing the code, you could have included a set of instructions as to how someone else could run it.
  • These three items will contribute to an open data ecosystem and reproducible research, something that we are aiming towards in this class.
• I don't have a direct answer to the question you posed in your shared journal entry. What I do know is that before there were empirical data to support our current understanding of how the code works, scientists like Francis Crick were coming up with theoretical schemes that included overlapping codons, codons for punctuation, and other things.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 11:09, 20 September 2017 (PDT)

Week 1 Feedback

• Thank you for completing the assignment on time.
• You wrote something in the summary field for 21 of 21 saves, or 100%. Keep up the good work~
• You completed all of the required content and skills except for the following list. You have the opportunity to make up the points you have lost on this assignment by completing the changes requested by the Week 3 journal deadline.
  • To protect your privacy, you might want to remove your phone number from this wiki because it is public to the world.
  • Under your section on independent research, you use the word “dissertation” in an odd way. Usually this word is reserved for PhD theses. Maybe you meant “dissemination” instead.
  • Your new wiki page for this assignment was only a “redlink”. When creating a page, the second step is to click on the link, edit, and save the new page (your Week 2 or Week 3 individual journal page will now fulfill this requirement).
  • Please be careful to use the correct syntax for an internal wiki link versus an external one. Some of your internal links are formatted like external ones, including the one on the Main course page. While they do function as links, we would like you to please go back and correct the syntax so that you have practice in learning the MediaWiki syntax.
  • Please be in the habit of using # to create a numbered list. I saw on the shared journal page you used actual numbers instead. When you use #, the wiki will take care to indent the lines properly.
  • You uploaded a file and linked to it on your page, but you did not make a visible label for it, such as in [[Media:filename | visible label]]. It will look neater if you include the label.
  • You included a category on your page, but we would prefer you to use the category “Journal Entry” instead. Please make this change.
  • You did not use your wiki signature in the required places: to sign your acknowledgments section and your shared journal entry. The wiki signature is ~~~~.
  • You created and invoked your template and I note that you used the advanced feature to specify weeks. However the name of the template itself is too generic for a wiki shared by our entire class. Please rename your template with your username.
• Thank you for the detailed acknowledgments section; it is exactly what we intended for this section. However, as noted above, in the future, please don’t forget your wiki signature!
• I answered your question on my User talk page.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 13:41, 12 September 2017 (PDT)