Hello John!
Replying to a message of John Feltham to Sheila King:
 JF>  ->> I've never heard of such a course in the California schools
 JF> nearby.  ->> Perhaps to our own detriment. Any consideration or
 JF> discussion of  ->> ethical implications would be brought up at the
 JF> teacher's (or  ->> participating students?) discretion and is
 JF> probably not part of the  ->> mandated syllabus.
 >> Just this past week I received a copy of the curriculum topics covered
 >> in the A.P. Computer Science curriculum, and among many others, these
 >> are included:
 >> F. Responsible Use of Computer Systems
 >>     1. Privacy
 >>     2. Reliability of systems
 >>     3. Legal issues and intellectual property
 >>     4.  Social ramifications of computer applications
It's mentioned not only in our curriculum and the AP curriculum, but in our 
textbook (Fundamentas of Pascal).  Only, it isn't tested on the AP exam, so 
you have the option of skipping it.
Kathleen
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