Programming Merit Badge by Allison Hagen https://padlet.com/AllisonHagen/ProgrammingMeritBadge 5 October 2019 en-us 2019-10-02 20:55:11 UTC 2024-07-24 16:06:54 UTC hello@padlet.com 3. General Knowledge AllisonHagen https://padlet.com/AllisonHagen/ProgrammingMeritBadge/wish/393716715 2019-10-04 17:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/AllisonHagen/ProgrammingMeritBadge/wish/393716715 1. Safety AllisonHagen https://padlet.com/AllisonHagen/ProgrammingMeritBadge/wish/393771648 Eye strain:
  • Sit so the monitor is about arm's length away
  • Adjust the brightness.
  • Take eye breaks. 20-20-20 rule: Every 20 minutes, look at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds.

Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI):
  • Maintain good posture.
  • Keep your shoulders and neck relaxed.
  • Stand up and move around every 20 or 30 minutes. Stretch, get some water, clear your mind.
]]> 2019-10-04 19:36:38 UTC https://padlet.com/AllisonHagen/ProgrammingMeritBadge/wish/393771648 4a. Intellectual Properties AllisonHagen https://padlet.com/AllisonHagen/ProgrammingMeritBadge/wish/393827526 Patents:
A patent is a twenty year exclusive monopoly on the right to make, use, and sell a qualifying invention. They can protect features of a program that cannot be protected under copyright or trade secret law. Since patent rights are exclusive, anyone making, using or selling the patented invention without the patent owner’s authorization is guilty of infringement.

Copyrights:
Copyright protection extends to the particular form in which an idea is expressed. In the case of software, copyright law would protect the source and object code, as well as certain unique original elements of the user interface. Copyright law also protects against indirect copying, such as unauthorized translation of the code into a different programming language. Copyright protection arises automatically upon the creation of an original work of authorship. There is no need to “apply” for a copyright or register the copyrighted work in order for protection to exist. Generally, the duration of a copyright is the author’s life plus fifty years.

Trade Secrets:
A trade secret is any formula, pattern, compound, device, process, tool, or mechanism that is not generally known or discoverable by others, is maintained in secrecy by its owner, and gives its owner a competitive advantage because it is kept secret. A trade secret can theoretically last forever — for as long as its owner uses reasonable efforts to keep it secret and someone else doesn’t independently create or “discover” it. Trade secrets are not subject to being “infringed,” as with patents and copyrights, but are subject to theft. Their legal status as a protectable intellectual property right will be upheld if the owner can prove the trade secret was not generally known and reasonable steps were taken to preserve its secrecy.

Trademarks: Logos, anything that points specifically to a company.

]]> 2019-10-04 23:52:19 UTC https://padlet.com/AllisonHagen/ProgrammingMeritBadge/wish/393827526 4b. Licensing and Owning Software AllisonHagen https://padlet.com/AllisonHagen/ProgrammingMeritBadge/wish/393834696 Licensing:
A software license gives you the right to use a software product. It also governs the use of the software along with the copyright laws, which prevent the unauthorized distribution or reproduction of the software. A license might also specify, among other terms and conditions, whether or not you may install the software on more than one computer and whether or not you can create backup copies of the software.

Owning: Anything that you yourself write is ownership.]]> 2019-10-05 00:56:36 UTC https://padlet.com/AllisonHagen/ProgrammingMeritBadge/wish/393834696 4c. Freeware, Open Source, and Commercial Software AllisonHagen https://padlet.com/AllisonHagen/ProgrammingMeritBadge/wish/393836570 Freeware:
The phrase refers to software that users can safely run, adapt, and redistribute without legal restraint. The Free Software Foundation provides these “four essential freedoms” that software must respect in order to be considered free:

  • The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
  • The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1).
  • The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
  • The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3).
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