General Problems with Portfolio Case Studies

I graded your portfolios academically based on three criteria:

• Overall quality of College and Career Plans ... 1/3 of grade
• Case Studies content ... do they follow the instructions? Do they have suitable problem and solution? ... 1/3 of grade
• Case Studies grammar ... 1/3 of grade

Curly Quotes

When you copy and paste from Google Docs (or MS Word) into a web page, you have to change the "curly quotes" to "straight quotes." Curly quotes look like upside down commas or cashew nuts. Straight quotes look like, well, short straight lines. For coding, we always want to use straight quotes. You may use curly quotes in your case studies, but you can't just copy and paste them from Google Docs, because they may not look right on all devices (see the printouts I gave back to you). Here is a page that describes the problem and how you can use HTML entities to fix it:

https://practicaltypography.com/straight-and-curly-quotes.html

 Note: I did not mark you down for this, but you should try to fix it if there are not a lot of them and/or you have extra time to fix things.

Case Studies Problem and Solution

Many of you wrote up solutions that we did not actually do, like adding extra features to the programs to make them better. We are looking for the solutions we actually did implement, not solutions that we could have done. What problem did you actually address and how did you address it?

Also, the problem and solution should be user-centric, not programmer-centric. Here's a tip: any time you mentioned code, JavaScript, SVG, or any coding term, you were talking about your problem as a coder, not the target audience problem you were trying to solve. Many times you actually do have your finger on the problem and solution, but you need to find a way to say it in a different way. For example, your solution may have been an algorithm, but it's better to say you used algebra or other math. Your solution may have been a web site that helps us (such as with the molecules).