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2017 03 16
Day one of the first run of the course. At the end of each session, students were asked to give one thing they liked or a positive item of feedback on a green sticky note, and one thing they didn't like or a negative item of feedback on a red sticky note.
This session was run using MobaXterm on the Windows desktops to access a shared Linux server running as a VM. This worked reasonably well although with Jupyter Notebook accessed via Firefox over X-Windows, scrolling was painfully slow. Also in a couple of cases Firefox browser and/or X Windows appeared to hang.
Red Stickies
- Maybe a higher number of exercises or examples would help
- Functions are a bit overwhelming... Maybe take more time to explain
- Time planning (it is a bit rushed)
- Printed material
- It would be good if programs ran quicker, but not much that you could do about that
- Too less background on the topic for someone starting from scratch
- Went through some command functions too fast for a total beginner + would like to do more examples typing out myself
- As a physicist/chemist, I struggled to follow the biology (had to Google a lot of terms)
- Can explain codes a little bit more
- More information on the genome annotation would be appreciated
- A bit slow running the programs
- Server is slow AF
- It's great that you show us Jupyter but you could run Python code locally as well (to avoid the necessity of scrolling)
- Too complex for beginner
- Everything not in detail
- Artemis
- Interactive
- Friendly demonstrators
- Course was easy to follow and explained simply
- Demonstrators were patient
- Very helpful making sure everyone on track
- Started out nice and slow/simple
- Really good ratio of tutors to students
- Course is well-organised, I love that you are already giving us the code so we can focus on learning how it works
- Explanations are great, clear, and easy to follow
- No software issues
- It's well explained, basic concepts
- Things were explained well and there were enough people to help
- It's been very clear and dynamic
- Very didactic in general
- Good examples to cover through course
- Good number of exercises and things for us to try out
- Good overview of the programs
- Artemis
- Interactive
- Help provided quickly
Presented lessons:
- 01: BLAST at NCBI
- 02: BLAST in terminal
- 06: UniProt in browser
- 07: UniProt in notebook
- 08: KEGG in browser
- 09: KEGG in notebook
In general, I think I'd like to rework these lessons and give a bit more motivating structure to link exercises, rather than just have apparently unconnected exercises - maybe linking in to previously published papers would help.
Red Stickies
- Encumbered second session
- Too quick
- A basic dictionary would be useful, and a slower pace for some steps
- Too many information in a go and command based
- A bit fast sometimes because the browser is slow
- Too much info together
- Too fast for learning programming (using command)
- A little bit fast on certain topics
- It was a bit rushed
- Was losing concentration near the end - an extra break would have been good
- Friendly and helpful demonstrators
- Interesting content
- Interesting
- Very helpful information about UniProt and KEGG
- KEGG
- KEGG
- How it works, really clear and useful
- Well done each database for their function/use
- Uniprot & KEGG, Browser and notebook
- Awesome presentation
- Great material coverage
- The GitHub cloud is very useful - please keep it online as I will use it to revise
- Demonstrators were helpful and very good at explaining things
- Helpful when asking for help
- Good explanations but difficult to follow at same time as doing something on the computer
- Course well laid out
- Many interesting info