User talk:Malverso

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.

Best Practices

• 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!

Database Exercises

Work in progress.

—Dondi (talk) 16:34, 25 October 2015 (PDT)

Week 4 Feedback

• Work was submitted on time, with a small fix applied the next day (and noted in your journal).
• 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, all answers were correct—good job! The spacing fix made it completely correct, but that is a formatting improvement rather than a content-based one.
• Shared responses were provided and they came in on time.

—Dondi (talk) 12:57, 7 October 2015 (PDT)

Week 3 Erratum

I just realized that you do have a link back to your user page in your template—it’s the week 1 journal entry, derp. I did not catch it before due to the naming, and now that you have renamed it I realize what it is now. The link was already present (though too-subtly named) back in week 3, so I take back the feedback that you did not have a link to your user page. In the end this did not affect your final score, but I just wanted to let you know that I caught that anyway.

—Dondi (talk) 00:18, 4 October 2015 (PDT)

Week 3 Feedback

• 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 candor and insight in the shared responses. Speaking of support networks, one of the charter members of the PyLadies group is a female LMU computer science alum, class of 2006. She works for Uber now, in the Bay area.

—Dondi (talk) 23:46, 24 September 2015 (PDT)

Week 2 Feedback

• 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 of the +1, +2, and +3 reading frames are correct, but your translations of the -1, -2, and -3 frames are not. I suspect that you did not translate 5' to 3' but translated left to right which would have been 3' to 5' on the bottom strand. You will want to make sure you are clear on this as you are heading into the Week 3 assignment. Double check with your partner that you have the orientation correct.
• 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.
• You wrote something in the Summary field for 5/5 contributions between the Week 1 and Week 2 deadlines, keep up the good work! However, you completed the full assignment in only 3 edits to the wiki. This suggests that you are doing the work outside the wiki and then pasting it in. Ideally, you should do the work natively in the wiki environment. Even if this is not the case, you will want to consider saving your changes more frequently so that the granularity of the changes is smaller.
• You have set up your template and completed all the links requested.
• 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 and even for folks with with a biology background. 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. I'm glad to hear that you are revisiting the text book to assist you with understanding.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 23:18, 20 September 2015 (PDT)

Week 1 Feedback

• I answered your question on my User talk page.
• The scores have not been posted yet, but I wanted to give you feedback on your Week 1 Assignment.
• You did everything on time—with many hours to spare, in fact. Good job, keep it up!
• Your assignment is complete except for one small detail: you only used 2 heading levels and not 3. Based on your overall work I don’t think it’s a question of whether you can do it; but overall it is a good habit to treat homework instructions like specs to fulfill. Everything else came in great, and you never forgot to summarize each of your wiki changes! (though you did repeat some messages, I think those were understandable)

—Dondi (talk) 00:37, 10 September 2015 (PDT)

I also answered your question on my user talk page. — Kdahlquist (talk) 23:10, 10 September 2015 (PDT)