Class Feedback from Group 3

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Overall, we all really enjoyed the class, learned a lot, and were able to apply lessons learned directly to our own projects. The teaching styles and overall attitudes of the professors added to make the class enjoyable and useful.

We liked the seminars given by invited speakers, as they expanded the practicality of the tools we were learning.

Some of us who took the "Introduction to Bioinformatics" class not so recently (or who didn't take the intro class) would have like a few more classes taught by professors to get refresher.

Issues sometimes were hard to come up with, if they didn't come up naturally we felt pressured to come up with something last minute. This may have been a result of being a virtual class this semester, and maybe wouldn't be a problem with in-person classes as much. Maybe could be better structured by spreading out the issues with the classes.

Also, there wasn't a scale of issues going from easier to harder, it would be nice to have more 'beginner' issues at the beginning of the class. There could be themes for issues, e.g. 'who has issues with installation?' for an early classes, then issues get harder as you go. But we realize that this may contradict our previous comment about having difficulty coming up with issues.

The semester structure (having being broken up by Xmas vacation) made it difficult to come back in January and finish strong, although we realize that is out of the hands of the professors.

The docker class would have been useful earlier in the course.

We liked Discord a lot, especially the audio/video options and the breakout rooms (and the meme room!).

The student projects in GitHub helped us to organize our projects and we found it useful outside of the scope of the class (i.e. for our thesis).

We liked the community available for discussing problems or overall bioinformatics themes, especially since we have been isolated in lockdown for tooooo loooooonggggggg.

Thank you for teaching a great class, Camille, Alicia, y Marisol!