CW13 — March 26th

Prep

• Please finish the following feedback form
• Finish the following subchapters on the website or in the free Stepik course:
  • 1.1 (A Journey of a Thousand Miles...) to including 1.4 (An Explosion of Hidden Messages)
    
  • take the detours if you can and please try to do the coding challenges (on Rosalind or Stepik) using Python or command line
    
• We will discuss your questions on Thursday at 2pm in the online meeting room
  

Agenda

• Testing microphone
• Introduction new students
• course start feedback
• course details
• poll: could you finish the chapters?
• meaning of 5 ECTS
  • 1 ECTS ~= 28h
  • 5 ECTS ~= 140h
  • time for class preparation and assignments = 140h - 24h (classes ~1.5h x 16 weeks) - 20h (exam prep) = ~96h
  • prep time per week = ~6h
• poll: which language did you use?
• questions
• It has not escaped our... — meaning
  • James Watson & Francis Crick — biologists, postulate about how the DNA replicates
  • confirmed by Matthew Melsin & Franklin Stahl 1958 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meselson%E2%80%93Stahl_experiment
  • centrifuge principle

  • Theodosius Dobzhansky — biology

• hidden messages
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gold-Bug
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher
• Pseudocode
  • exercise: character count in a string
• one minute paper
  • How useful was the online class today? Please give details.