Module 2

This is about the student handbook on computing for the students of Virginia University (Please surf for it). Read and understand their handbook.

If you are to become a part of the VSU team who will formulate a handbook like that of Virginia University, give at least 2 policies that you want to be implemented in VSU or even just for CS students like you, regarding computing . Also include sanction or sort of punishment to those who will violate the said policy.

If I am to become a part of the VSU team who will formulate a handbook like that of Virginia University, the 2 policies that I want to implement in VSU or even just for the CS students like me are:

1.  POLICY: During laboratory time, accesses of the non-related web pages    of the activity during the period are not allowed.

    SANCTION: When caught, student will be marked zero on the activity during the laboratory period.

2. POLICY: Posting of answers on personal web pages of the past exams without the instructors consent is prohibited, for it may be hacked by other users and will be used as a cheat.

    SANCTION: When found, the student is entitled to talk with the department head. If not reasonable enough, the owner is subjected to delete all the postings. If the owner will not delete the postings, the student will be banned from doing any more internet posting.

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According to the definition of ethics, it can be connected to the norms or custom of the society. What could be ethical to one could be unethical to another. If this is the case, in which ethics seem to be subjective in nature, why is there a need to study computer ethics at all? Support your opinion with facts.

Ethics can be connected to the norms or custom of the society. Though a certain custom can be ethical on a society, it is not an assurance that the other society can classify them as ethical also. There is still a need to study computer ethics even if ethics seems to be subjective in nature because each type of ethics deals with the different protocols that their members must obey and respect. Computer ethics deals with the proper usage of telecommunications and data storages. With the knowledge of an individual pertaining to computer ethics, he/she will not do anything that contradicts the codes of computer ethics. We all know that pornographic sites and even pictures are all over the internet, with the knowledge that this can cause harm to the public, these sites are eve blocked to avoid viewing by the public. Without computer ethics, guess there are a lot of damage that can cause harm with the abuse of today’s technology.  

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There are 4 types of non-jural law. Divine, natural, moral and physical. If you are to practice just one type of the non-jural law for the entire existence of your life, what would it be and why?

If I were to practice just one type of non-jural law for the existence of my life, it would be the Divine Law. As we all know, that this pertains to the laws that God has initiated to govern all His creations, living and also the non-loving. I believe that if practicing the laws that God has made, it will please Him and that I am living according His will. Giving back your life to your creator can bring someone’s life’s happiness to the fullest is what I believe in. Also, what I believe is that the other non-jural laws like natural, moral and physical law are laws made because of the divine law. These three laws made are with the accordance to the divine law. And so practicing this law and living this law for my entire existence is like I am practicing all the 4 non-jural laws.

Module 1 : Ambitions in Life as a Computer Science Student

What would to like to be 5 years from now? (hopes, aspirations, hopes)

                Our life depends on how we deal with it. Our future is the result of what we are planning in the present with our own will and with the efforts we put in for making it possible. As the quote from the site http://thinkexist.com/quotations/future/2.html says, "The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created - created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not someplace we are going to, but one we are creating."

                Each of us has our own dream of what we would be like in the near future. Of course, I am one of the “each” that I am referring in the first sentence. Five years from now, I would be 24 years old then, well, I am hoping that at that time, I am living a simple yet a happy life with my family that has been supporting me all my life. To sustain my personal and family’s needs, a stable job for me is what I am hoping for in the future.  Also, a loved one will come that I will love and will love and understands me for what I really am. To stay friends with my college family, the pakno family, still enjoying the life when we are still students. I really wish that the things I hoped my future will come true. These things will not be possible without my efforts for making it possible, with the aid of the Almighty God and my family, the reason for my efforts in the present.

If you are to develop a program to promote moral values, what program would you do and why?

                If I were to write a program to promote moral values, it would be a game. The game will consists of a crossword puzzle with words related to the morals of a person with its corresponding meaning, a picture puzzle showing the good traits of a person and a series of questionnaires perhaps that will lead the player on the answer related with the different values that a person must have. The destination of the player’s answer depends on the choice of the player. Since kids can easily imitate the actions of the mature ones, this game will be a helpful tool to develop the young minds as to what traits they must practice as they get older. Nowadays, adults tend to forget the morals they must teach the young ones or they aren't practicing the morals they must show with the young so this game will also be a tool that adults may use and enjoy. 

If you are a machine, what would you be and why?

               If I were a machine, I would be a lie detector machine. With the world we have right now, we are not sure who tells us the truth. Telling lies are just the natural thing. With the use of this kind of machine, I can detect if people were honest or telling me the truth. With this kind of ability, I can protect myself from people who are trying to hurt me or bring me down just for their personal gain and that I will know who will be those people that I can only trust.