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summary

This chapter looks at ethics in computer programming.

ethics

This chapter looks at ethics in computer programming.

While I have strong opinions on these matters (and you should be able to easily figure out my positions), the intent is to get you to think about your own position and be able to intellectually defend your personal beliefs at a college level of thinking and discourse.

chapter contents

• exploiting labor
• innovation

free music player coding example

Coding example: I am making heavily documented and explained open source code for a method to play music for free — almost any song, no subscription fees, no download costs, no advertisements, all completely legal. This is done by building a front-end to YouTube (which checks the copyright permissions for you).

View music player in action: www.musicinpublic.com/.

Create your own copy from the original source code/ (presented for learning programming).

Because I no longer have the computer and software to make PDFs, the book is available as an HTML file, which you can convert into a PDF.

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