User talk:Mbalducc

Week 2 Feedback

I see that Dr. Dionisio "lapped" me in providing feedback on Week 3 before I could record my feedback on Week 2 :) In any event, here is the feedback.

• Thank you for turning in your assignment on time.
• You wrote something in the summary field for 11 of 19 saves (58%) in the period of review. Remember we are aiming for 100%
• The number of total saves on your individual wiki page was 16, which is in the range of what was expected for this assignment.
• Your complementary DNA sequence was correct.
• Your +1, +2, frame translations were correct.
  • There was a missing "T" in the +3 frame.
• 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.
• Also, do not put the untranslated nucleotides at the end of the protein sequence. Since some nucleotides and amino acids share one-letter abbreviations, this is confusing.
• I did not see an electronic lab notebook for this assignment. For this journal entry, the lab notebook would have explained how you arrived at your answers to the questions posed in the exercise.
• In your References section, you need to change the citation to the Week 2 assignment.
• For your shared journal, the link from your user page to the shared journal page was missing.
• I also can't really visualize a hypercube; it is something that we can't render in 2D or 3D, I think. The current table form emphasizes how the third nucleotide can be redundant and degenerate. I think the other representation would help to understand how the first or second amino acid could be mutated an change the translation to a related amino acid.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 23:07, 23 September 2017 (PDT)

Week 3 Feedback

• Everything was turned in on time—good job! You also fulfilled the “good habit/best practice” aspects of the assignment, including supplying comments for 16 out of the 17 listed journal edits.
• You supplied an electronic notebook with this assignment, with the kinds of details that support openness and reproducibility, the values that we are after here. Look to try to answer these questions: 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? In that spirit, one portion that could use more detail was the last portion, which you characterized as tricky. Digging into what made something tricky, or what you tried that didn’t work, can be just as helpful to readers of your notebook as talking about what did work.
• Your hack-a-page work certainly fulfilled the instructions, with a nice dash of humor (or is it satire?).
• Your list of links was quite thorough, and of course there are more where those came from.
• You correctly listed a subset of the IDs in the page, and in this case you took the most explicit ones, the element IDs. Note that there are other kinds of IDs in the page and I was hoping you would catch those as well—for example, each reading frame entry got its own ID.
• Your shared journal chosen quote is actually something I say a lot when I teach computer science courses—learning computer science takes away the “magic” that many people feel when faced with the wonders of technology. The hope, however, is that the knowledge behind the magic actually feels more fulfilling and empowering than the sense of magic itself.

—Dondi (talk) 22:53, 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.
  • Please include Biological Databases and any other courses you are taking this semester in your list of upper division courses.
  • Please make an explicit statement about your career interests and goals.
  • You wrote something in the summary field for 13 of 24 saves, or 54%. We would like to see this approach 100%.
  • Please be careful to use the correct syntax for an internal wiki link versus an external one. Most 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, including your name on the Main page.
  • You uploaded a file and linked to it on your page, but the name of the file is very generic “Resume.pdf” Someone else in the class could have uploaded a file with the same name and overwritten the file without your knowledge. Now is a good time to get into the habit of using more informative names for your files. Usually this includes your last name and the date, but could include the course, type of assignment, etc. This is especially important when you are posting or sending files via e-mail to another person.
  • You included a category on your page, but we would prefer you to use the category “Journal Entry” Please make this change, including it on your template, instead of on the User page itself.
  • Also, you did not put the link to the Shared Journal page from your User page. Please include this link on your template as well. For each week, you will need to include links to the actual assignment page, your individual journal page, and the shared journal page from your user page (as well as the category). If you get into the habit of including this on your template, you will only need to edit once and all the pages will reflect the change. You can also go ahead and make your template for the rest of the semester so you will always have this part of the assignment fulfilled.
• I answered your question on my User talk page.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 13:35, 12 September 2017 (PDT)