Template:Mbalducc Shared Week 4
From LMU BioDB 2017
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
