VCE Software Development U4O2: Ethical issues in software development
Students learn the ethical issues of ineffective security, AI use in development, intellectual property and copyright, and the legal and ethical consequences of poor practice.
One content description from the full VCE Software Development - U4O2 - Cyber Security: secure software development practices journey. All 11 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (11)
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Ethical issue: ineffective security practices
2
Emerging trend: AI code generation tools
3
Checking and testing AI-generated code
4
Protecting privacy and confidential code when using AI tools
5
Bias and over-reliance when using AI to program
6
Australia’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics Principles
7
Intellectual property in software you write
8
Software licences and open-source code
9
Acknowledging sources and copyright
10
Ethical issue: copyright when using third-party and AI-generated code
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Legal and ethical consequences of ineffective software development practices
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