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Why software engineering courses should include ethics coverage

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Arvind Narayanan,

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 57, Issue 3

Pages 23 - 25

https://doi.org/10.1145/2566966

Published: 01 March 2014 Publication History

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Encouraging students to become comfortable exercising ethical discernment in a professional context with their peers.

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Why software engineering courses should include ethics coverage
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education
    2. Computing profession
      1. Codes of ethics

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March 2014

99 pages

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DOI:10.1145/2566590

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