Programming with Purpose: The Moral Imperative

The Untaught Ethics in Computer Science

What is Ethics in CS?
Ethics in CS in the simplest form is to responsibly use techology for the betterment of society. As we move into a digital age, the unethical issues that are in CS only increase. I belive teaching ethics into CS courses would allow students to be better equppied ehen facing issues like data breaches, algoritmic bias, and coprright infringment. Cybersecurity issues like data breaches happen when unauthorized people use malicious programs to gain access to senitive information of organizations or people. This poses extreme dangers to businesses, privacy, security, and trust in digital systems. Ethical tensions can best be addressed with thoughtful consideration of fundamental principles, rather than blind reliance on detailed regulations.Those principles should encourage software engineers to think more broadly about who their work affects, to examine whether they and their colleagues treat other people with the appropriate respect and consider how the public would view their decisions if they were sufficiently informed, and to analyze them, as well as how the decisions of those in the most vulnerable position are affected and we consider whether their actions are considered worthy of the ideal software engines.


The Code is not simply for adjudicating the nature of questionable acts; it also has an important educational function. As this Code expresses the consensus of the profession on ethical issues, it is a means to educate both the public and aspiring professionals about the ethical obligations of all software engineers.

Ethical Opinions Organizer 10 EthiCS Commandments

MLA Refrence:

IEEE-CS/ACM. “Code of Ethics.” Code of Ethics for Software Engineers, The Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, February 19
Grosz, Barbara. Grant, David G. “Embedded EthiCS: Integrating Ethics Broadly Across Computer Science Education.” Communications of the ACM, The Harvard Library, January 25, 2018.
Muhammed, Sadiq T, and Saji K. Mathew. “The Disaster of Misinformation: A Review of Research in Social Media.” International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, vol. 13, no. 4, 15 Feb. 2022, pp. 271–285,