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Mary Balducci's Responses

- Yes, I coded in the language HTML for this assignment.
- Yes, HTML has a standard library which me and my partner used.
- Yes, I understood what Paul Ford meant about coders being "angry". He was saying that the world of coding requires people to be blunt with their opinions. This leads to being able to make technical decisions faster, as everyone is getting their opinions out faster. This makes them seem like "angry" people.
I think the Web today has some of the things it had in the past, but is also very different than Tim Berners-Lee's original vision. It is the same in the sense that anyone can post to it, it's open and free, which is how Tim Berners-Lee envisioned it. It's better today because it contains so much more information, and today's browsers and webpages can do a lot more than just present a page. There's many more ways that the web can be used today. It's worse today because of things like loss of privacy and the spread of misinformation. It is hard to keep people accountable for what they put on the web.
Of the four databases I assessed, I like the SGD the best. This one had the most information on my gene and it was organized in the simplest way. The tabs at the top helped me find everything I was looking for without having too much information on one page. My least favorite of the databases was Ensembl. This one had a menu on the side which I found somewhat confusing. The layout of the website was not as simple to navigate as the others.

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Quinn Lanners' Responses

- Yes we used the language of HTML to complete this assignment
- Yes, since we used HTML syntax (taken from bootstrap) we were using a standard library. If we had not used a standard library the computer would not have known what to do with our HTML code. Therefore, since the computer knew exactly what to do with our HTML syntax that we used (namely open it as a web page), we must have used a standard library in writing our code.
- Yes. With so many languages and aspects to programming, along with the insane rate at which computer science is progressing, coders are often pressed to be very fast and quick thinkers. Programmers are given more praise for being decisive and blunt than careful and slow. This leads to programmers being very stubborn in their ways and their abilities. To further compound this, programmers often specialize in one language and believe that the language they choose is the best. This leads to a constant battle with other programmers in which they try to prove that their language of choice is best and that they can use their language to work faster and smarter than anyone else. Basically, the programming world seems to foster a culture of fast competition rather than accurate teamwork and collaboration.
While today’s web is like Berners-Lee’s initial vision of it, I don’t think anyone could have predicted just how big it would become. While today’s web does accomplish the original goal of Berners-Lee to help share information between people to solve problems the world faces, this sharing of information has extended way beyond just the scholarly sharing of information. The benefits of the web today can be seen in the number of ways we have to connect with people. Sites like LinkedIn can be used to help find employment, while sites like Facebook can be used to track down and stay in touch with old friends. While the possibilities with today’s web are countless, there are also several disadvantages of and threats to today’s web. Primarily, as Berners-Lee noted, is the problem of the spread of misinformation and lack of accountability to share only properly reviewed material, the loss of privacy, and the often unethical role that the web can play in the political world. While these are downsides, I would still argue that as long as we are all smart users and work to improve the content on the web, the web is one of our most useful tools in today’s society.
- UniProt was my favorite database by far. First off, the website was the most aesthetically pleasing, which made it much more enjoyable to surf and search through. Also, the ability to show/hide different categories of information on the gene using the menu on the left of the page was an incredibly useful feature. Along with the great layout of the site, the information was incredibly thorough and the citations were very detailed, which would make it easier in the future if we were ever looking for primary sources for the information.
- My least favorite database was the NCBI site. This in large part was due to the very plain and mundane color-scheme of the page, which made it very boring to search through. Furthermore, the overall information provided on the page was not as extensive as the other databases, and much more difficult to navigate through with limited knowledge of the gene. The fact that there was no general summary paragraph of the gene was especially disappointing.

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Arash Lari's Responses

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Yes we coded in HTML, which is a markup language.
Yes we used a standard library, which was HTML syntax with bootstrap for formatting.
Paul Ford says coders are angry because of a bunch of reasons. The world of coding moves so fast that in 18 months you can be obsolete.They're rewarded for quick thinking, this leads to people being blunt and specializing in their own field, which people will quickly cling too and proclaim the best. The mixture of these creates a culture of "angry" coders.

2. I think the author got the internet surprisingly well defined considering how long ago it was, but one thing I don't think he touched on was the paradigm shift of how the world uses the internet that we've gone through. Internet access is being a basic human right is a topic of debate within global communities and nowadays the internet is where some people go to school, go to work, and much more. It's much more a necessary part of life than the original author foresaw (which makes sense because that's more similar to how the internet was used and accessed in 1994).

3. Because my partner was more focused on the biological research of this assignment I referred to her experience and then checked out each of the website and agreed with her after I saw what she meant. The SGD database was definitely the most intuitive and the Ensembl website felt like it was designed for someone that was trained to use it, and not just for anyone that's curious.

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Antonio Porras' Responses

Did you code in a language for this assignment? I helped code in HTML for this assignment.
Did you use a standard library? We used bootstrap as the standard library.
Do you understand what Paul Ford meant about coders being angry? It makes sense why coders are angry because of the constant shift of what's important to know constantly changes within programming. I don't program, personally, however the level of security regarding their knowledge is understandable. Even thinking about Silicon Valley and how fast one idea or method can completely overturn the dynamic system in place.
How similar or different do you think Tim Berners-Lee’s original vision for The World-Wide Web is from today’s web? State ways where you think today’s web is better, and today’s web is worse. I believe his original version stays true with respect to allowing anyone with a computer and internet to access information and anyone can also publish information for others to view. However, it has also become a destructive medium by which people with the correct skill set can access information which isn't meant to be publicly available (e.g. SSNs). While the World-Wide Web can offer endless amount of information, it can be difficult to interpret what information is relevant or true and it requires one to understand not everything on the internet can be accepted with 100% certainty. Today's web is better in terms of mass amount of information, but the downside which is also the worse part is being able to parse through the endless bad or incorrect information. In this way, it's better and also worse.
Out of the four databases you accessed for this assignment (SGD itself, NCBI Gene Database, Ensembl, UniProt), which did you like the best, and why? Which did you like the least, and why? (Refer back to the question about differences in content or presentation that you noted on your gene's web page.) The best database was by far SGD which was created by Stanford University School of Medicine, Genetics Department. SGD had the same information the other databases had, however, the other databases references SGD more than SGD referenced the others. It went as far as providing the percentages of each amino acid in the protein which I thought was stunning and relevant to studying the gene expression. Lastly, the images and sections had were easy to interpret regarding data points and had extensive references to the information if one were to be interested in a certain area. My least favorite database was the Ensembl database because of the way it was formatted and also it had significantly less information on CLN1 and less graphs/images to visualize data points. Lastly the search for CLN1 was far more difficult than it should have been compared to the other databases.

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Zachary Van Ysseldyk's Responses

Yes, for this assignment, I coded in HTML even though Bootstrap did most of the formatting. We must have used a standard library because if he used no standard library, the computer would not know how to interpret our new language. I think that I understand what Paul Ford is saying when he says that coders are angry. He describes the culture of coders which often lead to "anger." For example, many coders are very defensive and opinionted about their code which may lead to an argument. Even Paul Ford writes: "Coding is a culture of blurters."
I think that there are similarities and differences when it comes to Tim Berners-Lee original vision for the World Wide Web. He denotes that the web will open up a new marketplace as well as open up a whole new way of communication. I agree with his vision in both of these aspects, however I got the sense that the World Wide Web was primarily meant for research and science. Of course this is not the case, everybody uses the Web. Overall, I think that the reality of Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web extended far beyond his vision.
My favorite database was SGD. It was the easiest and most aesthetically pleasing website to use. The data was set up in a way so that I was able to easily navigate the page. My least favorite was NCBI. I did not like how unfriendly the website was for new users. I think that SGD is navigable without prior knowledge about genetics whereas NCBI requires some knowledge on what exactly someone is looking for.

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