Class 7: Professional ethics

Held:

We consider some of our repsonsibilities as software professionals.

Preliminaries

Related Pages

• Eboard 7 (Source)

Updates

News / Etc.

• Don’t be afraid to ask for help! (From me, from your classmates, from Adam, from the Interweb.)
• Office supplies in the commons. Free will donations.
• Please let me know ASAP if you notice things missing from the Web site. I’m still getting up to speed on Jekyll; this course suffers the most.
• Yes, you can schedule meetings with clients (and, soon, with mentors) during class time (other than Mondays). Just give me advance notice so that I can schedule other issues appropriately.
• Class time Wednesday will be spent on meeting with clients or just working as teams on user stories.
• Friday will be more ethics.

Upcoming work

• Readings for Friday:
  • Arvind Narayaan and Shannon Vallor (March 2014). Why software engineering courses should include ethics coverage. Communications of the ACM 57(3): 23-25. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2566966.
  • Neil McBride (August 2012). The ethics of software engineering should be an ethics for the client. Communications of the ACM. 55(8): 39-41. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2240250.
  • Deborah G. Johnson (October 2008). Computer experts: Guns-for-hire or professionals? Communications of the ACM</emphasis> 51(10): 24-26. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1400190.

Good things to do

Nope, no extra credit.

• CS Table, Tuesday, 7 Feb 2017. Something on privacy.
• Scholars Convocation, Thursday, 9 Feb 2017, 11:00 a.m., JRC 101. David Orr: Climate Change and the Crisis of American Democracy.
• Thursday extras, Thursday, 9 Feb 2017, 4:15 p.m., Science 3821: Something on computer graphics (visitor from UMN).