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Week 3 Feedback

• Everything was turned in on time—thank you! You fulfilled most of the “good habit/best practice” aspects of the assignment, including supplying comments for 19 out of the 20 listed journal edits. The misses are:
  • I couldn’t find a link from the journal entry back to the user page.
  • Your journal entry page does not have a category.
  • Note how both issues would be addressed by having them in a template—consider doing that.
• You supplied an electronic notebook with this assignment, but it only covered the sed portion of the assignment. What is present is supportive of the openness and reproducibility values that we are after here: 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? Just expand your coverage to include all aspects of the week’s assignment.
• Your hack-a-page work certainly fulfilled the instructions, and really, one can’t go wrong with pugs!
• You certainly identified some links correctly, though all but the last (cgi-bin…) were of the same kind: links to supporting files for the web page. But speaking of cgi-bin, this appears not only as an action but also in bona fide a href links, and that ties in to the ID question…
• I was hoping that the values after seqdna in the cgi-bin links would be recognized by students as IDs. You listed the action by itself, which is technically correct, but a finer grain was also present. Further, pre_text and method="POST" are not IDs in the same sense that they are used in the assigned reading, particularly McMurry et al. IDs closer to the spirit of that reading would have been better.
• For the curl/sed exercise, I was hoping that students would notice the output option that can be provided along with pre_text. This option controls how the amino acids are displayed. Supplying output=Verbose to the curl command would have obviated the need for the sed commands that “spell out” the amino acid letters. Looking for additional options like this can sometimes save us a lot of work.
• Feeling that “I’m not a natural” can certainly be a challenge, but as you stated, you enjoy puzzles at heart and in many respects computer science in general and programming in particular does share a lot with puzzles. (so do mathematical proofs—I took MATH 248 with Dr. Larson, and she kept referring to the proofs we had to do as “little puzzles”) Keeping hold of that puzzle sensibility can help with “jamming” things into your brain, and of course arriving at a solution to the puzzle certainly helps!

—Dondi (talk) 23:36, 23 September 2017 (PDT)

Week 2 Feedback

• Thank you for turning in your assignment on time.
• You wrote something in the summary field for 23 of 34 saves (68%) in the period of review. Remember we are aiming for 100%
• The number of total saves on your individual wiki page was 12, which is in the range of what was expected for this assignment.
• Your complementary DNA sequence was correct.
• Your +1, +2, and +3 translations were correct.
• However, the -1, -2, and -3 frame translations were incorrect. It appears that you read them 3' to 5' instead of 5' to 3'. You either had to reverse the sequence or read it right to left to translate it correctly.
• Your determination of which frames contained ORFs was correct (but based on your mis-translation of the three minus frames).
• One other note: we do not label the ends of proteins 5' and 3', instead we label them N-ter and C-ter.
• I saw your separate electronic lab notebook page, but there were no notes for this assignment, just the answers again. For this assignment, the lab notebook would have explained how you arrived at your answers to the questions posed in the exercise. Please be sure to write a narrative about your process and keep your electronic lab notebook on the same page as your journal entry.
• One small note about your References section: you need to skip two lines in wiki syntax to get something to appear on a newline.
• The technical language in articles from the primary literature is definitely a hurdle for students (and even for faculty from a different field), but keep with it. Like with other fields of endeavor, it is good to take a look at the primary source.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 22:41, 23 September 2017 (PDT)

Week 1 Feedback

• Thank you for completing the assignment on time.
• 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.
  • You wrote something in the summary field for 18 of 37 saves, or 49%. We would like to see this approach 100%. Will Improve
  • 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. 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.Completed
  • You organized your page using the three levels of headers, ==, ===, and ====, but you need to be careful to use them “in order” in outline form. For example, use === only underneath ==, don’t skip from == to ====. Completed
  • One of the idiosyncrasies of using a numbered list in MediaWiki is that you cannot skip lines in between each line that begins with a “#” because it will restart the numbering from “1” again. On the Shared Journal page, you interspersed lines beginning with a “:”, so the numbering was restarted. A “:” causes an indent. When using numbered or bulleted lists, you don’t need to do manual indenting. You can also make sub-lists by using “**”, “#*”, or “#*”, or “##”. Just make sure that you don’t skip lines in between.Completed
  • 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.Completed
  • You included multiple categories on your page; we would prefer to see just the category “Journal Entry” instead of the ones you chose. The value of a category is that everyone is using the same ones to create the Table of Contents page.Completed
  • Another idiosyncrasy of MediaWiki is that if you want something to appear on a new line, you actually have to skip two lines instead of one. If you only skip one, the content on the second line will merge with the previous line. Completed
• Thank you for your detailed Acknowledgments section; that is exactly what you should do in the future.
• I answered your question on my User talk page.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 13:36, 12 September 2017 (PDT)