User talk:Jwoodlee

Week 6 Feedback

I’ve chosen to issue partial feedback sooner than complete feedback later, in case it will help you address issues with Week 8.

Individual and shared work were both submitted on time.
Requisite links to and from the user page as well as page categories are all present.
Electronic notebook was maintained.
Work was submitted in appropriate frequencies with corresponding summaries.
This amounts to a “best practices” perfect score. Good work, keep it up!

Work in progress.

—Dondi (talk) 16:42, 25 October 2015 (PDT)

Work was submitted on time.
All good-habit items are fulfilled:
- All expected links and categories were noted.
- Electronic notebook content was seen.
- Summaries were consistently provided over a good number of edits.
For the exercises, the following issues were seen; all others were correct:
- You were off by one nucleotide on the transcription start site.
- Spaces were not included before and after tagged sequences—the sequences were still correct, of course, but it made the answer harder to read.
- The off-by-one error in the transcription start site found its way to the mRNA strand, which subsequently became one nucleotide too long.
Shared responses were provided and they came in on time.

—Dondi (talk) 23:43, 4 October 2015 (PDT)

Work was submitted on time—keep it up!
All good-habit items are fulfilled except one: there is no link from your Week 3 journal page back to your user page. For maximum efficiency, include this in your “table of contents” template.
- Beyond that, all expected links and categories were noted.
- You were able to phase your work well, and consistently supplied a change summary to all of them.
- You accompanied your work with electronic notes and processes.
All exercises were performed or answered correctly.
Thank you for your shared responses. There is indeed an art to coding, and it certainly does not need to be a dry mechanical activity. Let’s keep spreading the word on that :)

—Dondi (talk) 01:03, 26 September 2015 (PDT)

Although, the Week 2 scores have not yet been posted, I want to give you feedback on the assignment that you can incorporate to your your Week 3 submission.
First, thank you for submitting your assignment on time.
Your translations are correct; although it would have been better for completeness to go ahead and translate the rest of the sequence after the stop codon, in this case.
You did not include anything by the way of an electronic notebook for this assignment. Although this assignment was pretty straightforward, you still need to document the process of what you did to arrive at the answers, not just supply the answers. Please be sure to do this for your Week 3 submission.
- Electronic Lab Notebook was on user page, I've moved it to the week 2 journal page now - Jwoodlee (talk) 09:16, 21 September 2015 (PDT)
You wrote something in the Summary field for 44/45 contributions between the Week 1 and Week 2 deadlines, keep up the good work!
You have completed all of the links requested via your template.
With regards to your comments on your shared journal entry, I knew that the Nirenberg article would be difficult for folks without a biology background, it was even difficult for those who did. However, I also think it's a good exercise to go back to the original source sometimes and read about discoveries from "the horse's mouth" so to speak.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 23:27, 20 September 2015 (PDT)

I have answered your question on my user talk page.
Even though the scores are not posted, I want to give you feedback on your Week 1 Assignment.
Your assignment is complete except for the following:
1. What is the purpose of the stray characters you added in your first section? Please remove them.
2. Under your work experience, it would be a cleaner presentation if you linked the web site to the title instead of making it a separate bullet point.
3. Out of 66 contributions (the most, I think, so far), you only wrote something in the Summary field 18 times or 27%. We are actually aiming for 100% of the time. This is an especially important habit to have as a developer, where documentation is a key part of your job.
4. Because we only use the single = as the name of the page, you need to go down one more level to four ==== to fulfill the assignment's direction to use at least 3 levels on a page.
5. Please comment something out on your page, which is another key skill you need as a developer.
6. You successfully uploaded and linked to a file, but it has a very generic filename that could easily be confused with another student. You should be in the habit of including your name and date in all filenames. Also, create a label for the link.
7. Please remove the category "User Page".
I like the layout of your template!
You can make up the points that you missed on this assignment by making the corrections requested above by the Week 2 deadline.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 00:27, 10 September 2015 (PDT)

I’ve answered your question on my talk page.

—Dondi (talk) 00:47, 10 September 2015 (PDT)