7. Ethics and Ownership
A section of Computer Science, 9618
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Aisha manages a team of software developers. Explain the reasons why it is important that Aisha acts ethically in relation to her team members. The team are developing a computer game where the user plays a board game (such as chess) against the computer. Describe how the computer would use Artificial Intelligence (Ato play the board game. The final game will be released under a licence. Tick (3) one or more boxes in each row to identify the licenceeach statement describes. Statement Free Software Foundation Open Source Initiative Shareware Commercial Software The user can edit the source code The user must always pay before being able to use the software The user can redistribute the software The user always gets a trial period
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2021
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Francis is starting his first job as a software developer for a multinational company. Francis has been advised to join a professional ethical body. Describe the benefits to Francis of joining a professional ethical body. Francis is shown the software he will be working on. He is unfamiliar with the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) he is required to use. Describe the ways in which Francis can act ethically in this situation. A typical IDE provides debugging tools to support the testing of a program. Identify three other tools or features found in a typical IDE to support the writing of the program. Francis is part of a team writing a program. He finds an error in part of the program that has already been tested. He decides not to tell anyone because he is worried about the consequences. Explain the reasons why Francis acted unethically in this situation. Francis’s team use language translators. Complete the descriptions of language translators by writing the missing words. are usually used when a high‑level language program is complete. They translate all the code at the same time and then run the program. They produce files that can be run without the source code. translate one line of a high‑level language program at a time, and then run that line of code. They are most useful while developing the programs because errors can be corrected and then the program continues from that line. Assemblers are used to translate assembly code into .
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2021
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Francis is starting his first job as a software developer for a multinational company. Francis has been advised to join a professional ethical body. Describe the benefits to Francis of joining a professional ethical body. Francis is shown the software he will be working on. He is unfamiliar with the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) he is required to use. Describe the ways in which Francis can act ethically in this situation. A typical IDE provides debugging tools to support the testing of a program. Identify three other tools or features found in a typical IDE to support the writing of the program. Francis is part of a team writing a program. He finds an error in part of the program that has already been tested. He decides not to tell anyone because he is worried about the consequences. Explain the reasons why Francis acted unethically in this situation. Francis’s team use language translators. Complete the descriptions of language translators by writing the missing words. are usually used when a high‑level language program is complete. They translate all the code at the same time and then run the program. They produce files that can be run without the source code. translate one line of a high‑level language program at a time, and then run that line of code. They are most useful while developing the programs because errors can be corrected and then the program continues from that line. Assemblers are used to translate assembly code into .
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2021
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