Template:Cazinge Shared Week 4

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  1. Based on these readings:
    • Did you code in a language for this assignment?
      • Yes, we used HTML5 and CSS for this assignment.
    • Did you use a standard library?
      • Yes, we used Bootstrap for this assignment.
    • Do you understand what Paul Ford meant about coders being “angry?”
      • Programmers are often angry out of fear of becoming irrelevant due to the constant upkeep of learning new languages and frameworks.
  2. 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 think Tim Berners-Lee's original vision for the World-Wide Web is very similar, but some of the core elements may be different than he may have intended. The internet is technically still free and distributed, but it has become much larger of a platform and much more embedded in our everyday lives than he could have ever imagined.
  3. 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.)
    • My partner felt as if SGD was the best database source, and I stand by his decision due to the fact that it was the most heavily referenced and had the most comprehensive source of information. He also felt as if Ensembl was the worst, due to the poor user interface design and abundance of irrelevant information.