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Mary Balducci's Responses

1. • 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.
2. 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.
3. 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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Antonio Porras' Responses

1. Did you code in a language for this assignment? I helped code in HTML for this assignment.
2. Did you use a standard library? We used bootstrap as the standard library.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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

1. 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."
2. 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.
3. 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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