Ethical Issue: Open-Source Softwares

Thoughtful Questions:

1) There are several common examples of open-source software that many people use in their everyday lives. Can you name any?

- Linux : Operating System

- Google Chrome OS : Lightweight operating system based around the web browser.

- Android smart-phone operating system. 

These are all familiar names that we ever heard.  They are pretty common.

2) Do you believe that the quality of an open-source software product is likely to be higher or lower than the quality of software produced by a large corporation? How do you think technical support for open-source software compares to that for proprietary software?

-I believed that, the quality of an open-source software product is likely to be lower than than the quality of software produced by a large corporation. Because, the reason why the "original" product is being sell out on the market with some expensive price (software such Microsoft Office) it might cost something thousands; is because that, programmer actually spent a lot of time writing the codes and making this product up. And it is not just one person, its a large professional corporation that made it together. And because it is professional and it is good enough to sell it with price, that software and its quality must be good enough and worth to buy. So by looking at this we can imagine the quality of the open-source software product, it wouldn't be too good. First of all, people could edit it and make changes with the coding from the original, but how do you know that the person that is giving you this free software that he or she just made changes is just a good programmer or not? And since they know that it is not as good as the original that's made by a large corporation, they then feel ok to give out people for free. 

3) Daniel Bricklin, biography appears in Chapter 12, did not patent (or copyright) his software, believing that software should not be proprietary. As a result, he lost a great deal of money in the form of possible royalties. Do you consider his actions to be visionary or naive?

-I think is naive, because he didn't copyright his software and didn't think of the consequences of believing that the software should not be proprietary which is losing a great deal of money. He could have at least have an idea of believing that the software should not be proprietary BUT it is ok for others to have only IF they copyright the software to the owner. 

4) The Free Software Foundation is a tax-exempt charity that raises funds for work on the GNU Project. GNU software is free. Go to the Web and read about its philosophy. Compare GNU products with those of manufacturers such as Microsoft and Sun. 

-Obviously it is different already when you see the name. GNU is a free software foundation that raises funds for work on the GNU project but Microsoft software needed to be paid in order to have the software and they are not made for funds like GNU software. 

5) If you were to continue with computing and become a programmer, which side of the argument would you take: Should software be copy-righted or should it be free?

- I would take soft wear be copy-righted. Because the reason why a software is sell it with price is because it worth that price. Imagine an engineer sitting in font of the computer, typing codes again and again, input as many possible values as possible (basically testing) and they ended up giving out the codings for nothing. In the person who actually "write the codes"'s view, I would just say no, they need to copyright my softwares and my work that I've done for long time. But in a general people's point of view. Sometimes when a software is not free, I wouldn't want to go actually buy them, I will just download it. But in this question is talking about "become a programmer" so my answer is "it should be copy-right". 

Blog Post: My Winter Holiday

This is a Prezi about my Winter Holiday! It contains the things that I'd done during the holiday. It was nothing much, mostly I just stayed home or go to my aunty's house. But of course, I did something fun at home such as watching dramas, animes with myself or with my family together! My sister and I always watch movies, chit chat, or eat the whole night; night time is our world! we watched many movies at night together. And so we sleep in the morning till early in the afternoon mostly (which is not good). Anyways, other than having fun at night and spend time at aunty's house, my family and I also went for a 3 days trip at HuaHin for welcoming the Year of 2014 ! (for more information,have a look at my Prezi below).After I've done my Prezi about my new year, I realized that, Time flies so quickly!

Blog Post: Startups steal the show 2014

Nowadays we have higher technology than what we used to have before, people are creating more and more convenient products to world such as some smart devices like smart phones, tablets and etc. Other than those devices, there are also a lot more new little products that are really good to use for example. When we are hot, we wanted a fan but we are lazy to fan our-self, so we buy this small electrical fan to make our-self cool; its easy to use, easy to carry out. Or if we want to give our straight hair some curls, we can use iron curler, wait till it get hot and then curl our hair! before we might need hair curler and curl our hair piece by piece in order to get a perfect curl of hair etc. There a A LOT more new products that doesn't exist before that we have it now in which made our life way more convenient.

And in this article I'll be mentioning about the new and cool products that came up 2014 in the International Consumer Electronics Show. The first product is a small simple and cute looking device that has a cube shape components. We can play around with it by joining more cubes together since there's a small circle magnets attach to the cubes that enables many cubes join together and become one. It included a modular robotic concept called Moss. We can build different styles of robots however we want.

The next product in the show is this cute doll "Teddy the Guardian". It is really convenient because as what we know, kids are really afraid of doctors and going to hospitals, but now they created this little bear with its palm being inserted a pulse oximiter. This can measure blood pressure, heart rate, and it can send all these information of smart phone. They can also give information to babies about pulse.



Next, this product is call the "Kolibree" smart toothbrush. This toothbrush can inform the person who is brushing their teeth about whether they are brushing their teeth in a correct way or not, in this, we are able to brush our teeth more clean.

Next, this product is also a kind of product that suits a lot of people which is call the "Mother". The reason why its called "Mother" is because its function or its job is just like a mother. It has a accelerator-based, motion-tracking fitness concept in this wireless device with Bluetooth. It can sense the motions for whatever such as reminding you to take medicine, tell you to drink more water etc.

Next, this product is call Panano. It is like a small ball, about a size of your palm. It is covered with lenses all over that you can throw in the air and it can capture a 72-megapixel, 360-degree, great quality image. It's so cool that the cost of it is a little bit expensive.

Next, as we know that we can use our LED flash next to the camera on our smart phones now as flashlights. There's this product call iBlazr in which you use it by plugging it on your earphone jack. Even though this flashlight is connect to your phone, it has its own internal battery, so when you charge it with USB cable, it'll allow the light to double as a keyboard light! Another light product is called ZeroHour. The reason why it caught our eye is because its water, impact, and bomb proof. Sounds pretty cool.

Next product is a device that includes Nuvyyos Tablo and a dual-tuner DVR which makes pushing over-the-air TV to all our mobile devices easily. Basically its "air" feature is impressive, other than the air TV to all our mobile devices, AirTame which is a wireless adapter for Mac and PC is also good. AirTame worked by connecting the HDMI while running an app, you can then stream wireless video quickly. Another device that is computer-related is called the FINSix laptop power adapter. Since people are always traveling around, Mac created "Air" which is a lighter products for travelers, FINSix laptop power adapter has 65 watts, pretty much enough for a Mac to work. This can be work as a charger.

Main Concept:
As year goes by, there are more and more new interesting products coming up in the market. Just like what it's been mentioned in this article: The robot that you can create however you want it to be by attaching them together at the joint that has magnets; The little cute Teddy bear that has a main function which is to measure blood pressure, heart rate, etc. This grabs kid's attention and eventually, parents can check out kids' body health by using this bear instead of going to the hospital since this bear could connect to a smartphone and tell everything about the person who's holding the bear's palm. There are more new products mentioned in this article, basically it is all new and convenient and products that includes "smart" ideas.

Advantage & Disadvantage:
The good thing about these is that, they are really convenient and they are very smart. With these products, we can live our life easily. But the bad thing is that, these "smart" products are never going to be cheap. Because since its so smart, it must have inserted with  a lot of coding and expensive exponents combined together to create it, of course the price will be a bit higher. And since its a bit higher, people won't be thinking to actually buy them.

Question:
What will happen if the world doesn't have these kind of convenient products anymore? Will robot take over us in the future?

Citation:
 "CES 2014: Startups steal the show." CNET. 20 Jan. 2014 <http://ces.cnet.com/8301-35301_1-57617051/ces-2014-startups-steal-the-show/>.

Testing

Basically, when they talk about testing, it is talking about executing programs and see the result whether it is how we want or not. And testing is not only running the program once but, we need to do many times and follow several steps. First one is to make a test plan.
A test plan is a doc that tell us how many times we need to run over the program in order to test through out the whole program.
Next is the two approaches, which is Code Coverage and Data Coverage. Code coverage, which is an approach that make sure we execute all the statements in the "code", not missing any one. For the Data coverage now is not testing the codes but its about the possible "inputs values"; basically try/input possible values.
Then is the Test Plan Implementation. This involves running program (according to the test plan), execute the result and if the result is not as what the user wanted to be, the user must be able to look at the plan and see the mistakes that they'd made to let the program appeared error, that's why the plan is important when testing. 

In my opinion, "testing the program" is very important also, especially with the plans that you made because, if you test the program with the plans you made and run each one by one, if error occurs, you can always go back and check your mistakes since you have the notes. In addition, if you tested the program with input-ing many possible values, you'll get to know more about the program whether it is what YOU want or not (not working/errors occurred).

Blog Post: The popular Apps in school

Nowadays, everything become very efficient and convenient! Even in school. People use to go school with bunch of textbooks, notebooks, and pencils etc. Now people would just bring an iPad, basically tablet or electronic device but how does that help teachers and students while teaching and learning? Well there are many apps that are educational and are perfect for school (teachers and students). Of course, Apps are making everything easier. Instead of writing a report by hand, we could simply just go Google drive and make presentation online and just share with the teacher's email, it is that easy and quick. Sometimes teachers wouldn't have enough time to finish their teachings and it might be the reason that, they had to prepared a lot before the teaching day by making up speeches, notes and probably a "real-life" example of something. So on the day of teaching he/she would have to present to the class, and just by writing down the notes on the board takes about 5 minutes. But if the teacher used apps such as Google presentation, all they have to do on the day of teaching is just talking, students can get the notes from teacher by sharing the documents to students so that the student can focus on listening to the teacher instead of being busy taking down the notes. And there are actually 10 apps that are really common and is a great tool for teachers to use which are: Google Apps, Twitter, Skype, YouTube, EverNote, Dropbox, ClassJojo, Edmodo, WordPress *blogging software*, and Socrative. In here I will be talking about the ones that I've seen it almost with all the teachers and think it is very useful and awesome. ;) 

1. Google Apps! 

This is the most famous apps of all! not only on education but also search tools from Google is large and convenient. The apps in Google Apps that teachers would use the most would probably be Google documents. In Google documents, teachers can share students his or her notes just by clicking "share" and enter the student's email address. Isn't that fast? If there's a group work, teachers always tell students to use Google document so that we can do the presentation or work together at one time, and even though we don't meet each other during the weekends, we could still go online and do the work together! That's why it is so famous for teacher's tool ! In this point, student won't have any excuse like "my paper is gone", "my partner is not around" etc. 

2. Twitter!

This app are also available for sharing things! Just like my teacher Mr.Pete, he always shared students articles about the latest interesting things about technology so that even though we don't know how to search or what to search about the latest technology, we can just go there and find articles that he shared with us!!

3. YouTube!

In my opinion, this is the most awesome app! I guessed it's also awesome for teachers! Because if you don't know anything, yes you might just Google it but it wouldn't be easy for some people that are visual learners. For education, especially for math! The hardest subject ever, when I don't understand some topics during weekends, and I can either ask teacher for help by Emailing them or simply just go YouTube and search for tutorials! There are A LOT of useful videos in YouTube that gave us a better understanding of anything. Even teachers can learn from videos! Sometimes they just show you step by step, sometimes they speak to you like they're teaching us. So for teachers that thought of students when they're lack of understanding of some topic in class, they can also send some useful, and helpful videos to students for them to get a better understanding. 

4. Dropbox!

Dropbox is a really convenient app for sharing "files". And it is really cool that we can share big files to each other. Before if teacher want to send those big files to students, they might need USB or Email (but email have limitations). For drop box, students and teachers and share big files "online"! if you don't want to download the app. If you downloaded you can see the files keep on updating on the desktop, isn't that just so convenient? We don't even have to sign in etc... we can just open the folder called "dropbox" on our desktop and the files would be updated automatically when there's new stuff being added in. 

Major Concetps:

There are apps that are really useful when it comes to education! They all became teacher's favorite apps when it comes to teaching. Apps like YouTube, Google etc are really convenient in good the way of students 'and teachers' teachers and learning. Apps are mostly "online", and online are teacher's "favorite". It is not just convenient, it also saves a lot and I mean A LOT of time! 

Advantage and Disadvantages:

The advantage of apps that teacher uses with students is that it really saves a lot of time. Before if we want to do research we might have to go library and get books, but now internet has "everything". If teachers saw something that is helpful to students, they would share with students too! and when I say sharing, it is simply just send them the link or share them the link by one click. Quick, and easy. 

Since it is online, when teachers want to share us something, we can always go back and check the things they shared with us, we don't need to go ask them again. 

The disadvantage would be that, if there's no "INTERNET"... or the internet shuts down somehow, students wouldn't be able to access to teacher's blog and if we tell teacher that we couldn't access to internet, they would be like : "sorry but is your problem". probably for some students, the might lie to teacher and take advantage of " cannot access to internet ". But for some people that really cannot access to internet will then have a big problem. -__-"

Questions:

I wonder what will happen to people now without these technology/apps/internet access...will people go back to the time when we still do homework by writing etc...?

Citation:

"The 10 Most Popular Teacher Tools Being Used This Year." Edudemic. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Nov. 2013.

Chapter 5 Thought Questions

Do you have a computer in your home as you were growing up? If so, how did it influence your education to this point? If not, how did the lack of a home computer influence your education to this point?

- Yes, I do have a computer when I were growing up. In my opinion, it has a good influence in my education because when I was young, I used to play typing English vocabulary game a lot, and this made me knows how to use keyboard and know how to place properly (since the first rule of the game is to know how to place the keyboard properly). As days goes by, I became more accurate while typing! And not just only that, even the vocabularies in the game helped me know many easy English vocabularies! and that is actually a good influence for education in a point. Even now! for education, computer made everything way easier than what it used to be. For example, if I don't understand what teacher said in class, I can always "Google" it using computer. 

The digital divide puts those who have access to technology on one side and those who do not on the other side. Do you feel that it is the right of everyone to have access to technology?

-Its right for people to access to technology but is not good to separate those who have access to technology and those who don't. For accessing to technology and digital divide, is just up to the user whether they'd like to use computer or not, if they like it then they should go ahead and access to the technology. But it would't be good if they separate people hat have access to technology and those who don't have because it doesn't mean that if I don't have a computer or a smart device, I don't want to use them. It more like, they can't and they don't know how to use, so instead of being happy to see the device they might feel like "oh, I don't know to use so forget about it". So now people that have the access to technology can go help and teach them how to use so they can access and feel interested to technology.

It will cost a great deal of money to erase the digital divide. Who do you think should be responsible for paying cost?

-For me I think that the government should pay for it. Because the cause of "digital divide" is not from us, is not us who made those people separate into 2 sides. And since I think that government are the ones who work for the country to make a country better, they should be responsible for all these. For example, nowadays there are many, almost every school has computers, TVs, etc but there are still many poor people that goes the schools that doesn't provide them all these. And so, the government now can provide some computers to those poor people that can't go to a school that has computers! so It will be equal. 

Having access to technology is not enough; people must be taught to use the technology they have. How would you define computer literacy for each of the following groups of people?

a. High school students in an industrialized country:
-Since they are students in an industrialized country, they have a clear idea of how to use computer because everyone is using it, and it is just very common for high school students to use computers, iPads and those other electronic devices in school. Textbook might even all be E-Copies, and homework are mostly online.  And I believe, many of them do have "research paper" as their homework during high school time, and so they actually uses computer to do online research about their topic.

b. Kindergarten teachers in an industrialized country:
-Teachers teach in kindergarten mostly teaches basic things, and so they might not touch computers that much since they uses something more like big books big pictures, activities, games etc. So the teachers might not really use it a lot everyday  which is different from what those teachers in high-school did. But if they really have a lesson about computer, the teachers might just introduce the really basic component and function of outputs of computer such as (keyboard, mouse, etc).

c. College graduates in an industrialized country:
-College people had been through both kindergarten and high school, so they actually have the best and the most clear computer literacy! Probably they learned about engineering during college, so when they graduate, they would have to touch computer all day everyday and it would actually become the thing that they "have to" use everyday in their life. And not even engineers, even those people who work for selling things online, they would have to be good at organizing a website to make it look attractive to the customers so that they can earn money. So in this stage, it would be the most clear time of their life of using computer.

d. Students in sub-Saharan Africa:
-Just by looking at the place, "sub-Saharan Africa" and compare to "industrialized place" we can say that, the students here might not get to have personal computers, probably some but it might be really less but even though they have, they might not use it like what the students lived in industrialized place. Their level might be the same as those kindergarten students that lived in industrialized place.

e. College graduates in sub-Saharan Africa:
-College graduates might have better computer leniency than the students, but, since their work in the future might not be something like engineer, but instead they might work at their home etc. So they might know about the computers but not as easy as the college graduates in industrialized country and not as "deep" as them either.

f. Government officials in the Andes:
-Since they are government officials, they should at least know some basic things about computer but they're in Andes, where there are mountains etc, they might not use computer a lots but like I just mentioned, they are government who work for their country, so they might at least have a standard level of computer using in order to connect and keep in touch of other countries. 

Code of Ethics: Case 4 - Unauthorized Access

In case 4 it is talking about hacking account. An instructor had allotted a fixed time for each student to access the computer to finish their project. And one of the student that ever work at a computer center hasn't done his/her project yet, so he/she hacked into the instructor's account and adjust the time to be longer in order to finish the project. 

According to this case, the code of ethics is violated because in the ACM code it says that everyone has to be:

     - Be honest and truth-worthy.

     - Be fair and take action not to discriminate.

     - Respect privacy of others.

And in this case, the student is not being honest because without telling the instructor, she made a change to the time and this wouldn't be fair to those other students that are not done with their project. Thea action that she's hacking the instructor's account is considered not being respectful to the privacy of others. 

According to the case, here are the consequences:

• By not being honest, the instructor might not let student work on project on their own with the computer anymore since the student are un-trust-able, probably she/he would stayed next to the student next time.

• By not being fair and finished the project her/himself because of hacking the account and adjust the time, the other students might seek you as a cheater and instructor might have bad impression of you and perhaps, yourself and your grades might get effected too. 

• By not respecting the privacy of other is very bad and dangerous. In this case is just between instructor and student, so the instructor might give you detention or more works, less grades or even contact your parents etc. But if you are in the real world and you don't respect other people's privacy, they can actually sue you and put you into the jail, so is very important to respect other peoples privacy. 

Instead of being and acting like this, they should be honest and respect to other people's privacy (just like what they mentioned in ACM). Also they should be responsibility in making decision so they wont harm the others. By doing these the result will be --> Because you think carefully, and decided not to do it, this won't harm anyone even yourself. But if you decided to hack the account, then you should be responsibility of what you've done, and don't blame the others.


-  Access computing and communication resources only when authorized do so.
-  Avoid injuring others, their property, reputation, or employment by false or malicious action.