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Assignment:
1. What was the code Sourour that was so ashamed of?
A. a torrent platform
B. a dating app
C. a pharmaceutical advertisement disguised as a quiz.
D. a signals intelligence program used in clandestine drone strikes.
2. Knuth considers computer programming an 'art' because:
A. an art and a science are identical
B. only sciences can be automated
C. Knuth's preferred book title was already taken
D. it produces objects of beauty
3. Irmak offers an ontology for software as an abstract object, akin to the ontology of:
A. ordinary objects
B. musical works
C. object-oriented programming
D. nand gates and their equivalencies
4. Software quality in recent years has been plagued by significant quality issues due to being:
A. rushed to market
B. free of bugs and errors
C. adequately tested
D. none of the above
5. Floridi states that software may misfunction in some limited sense, but cannot dysfunction because:
A. software is understood as a type of a token
B. a negative malfunction, or dysfunction, occurs when an artefact token either does not (sometimes) or cannot (ever) do what it is supposed to
C. a positive malfunction, or misfunction, occurs when an artefact token may do what is supposed to but, at least occasionally, it also yields some unintended and undesirable effects
D. all the above
6. According to Prasad, why does software quality continue to be terrible when compared to hardware, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and other industries?
A. the ease of software theft and piracy
B. unrealistic construction schedules
C. the prevalence of zero-day exploits
D. lack of proper training among computer programmers.
7. Which of the following is NOT a software failure prevention technique offered by Oloko?
A. analysis of a software programming code by executing the programs built from the software on a real or virtual processor.
B. releasing your product to the public fast, early, and often so that they can beta test it for you
C. source code of the software program should be reviewed by someone other than the programmer who wrote the code
D. programmers that work together on a project should all try to follow a particular programming style
8. Why does Andreessen think software is eating the world now?
A. we will soon create general artificial intelligence, ushering in the 'singularity'
B. because he endorses simulation theory,; the hypothesis that the cosmos and all that resides within is a computer simulation
C. because all of the technology required to transform industries through software finally works and can be widely delivered at global scale
D. because if you can imagine it, there's probably an app for it
9. In Gibson's work on affordances, some affordances of the terrestrial environment include:
A. Objects
B. Surfaces and their layout
C. Substances
D. all the above
10. Norman thinks one characteristic of good design is:
A. Creativity
B. Beauty
C. Discoverability
D. Intelligibility
11. Norman considers these to be a few of his 'Fundamental Principles of Interaction':
A. Signifiers and feedback
B. Shock and denial
C. Features and accessories
D. Anger and bargaining
12. Winograd states that design is an activity that:
A. is creative
B. is conscious
C. has social consequences
D. All the above
13. What does Garrett call the practice of creating engaging, efficient user experiences?
A. Human-computer interaction
B. Graphical user interface
C. User-centered design
D. Augmented reality
14. "The process that ensures that the designs match the needs and capabilities of the people for whom they are intended" is what Norman calls:
A. Experience design
B. Human-centered design
C. Interaction design
D. Industrial design
15. Why does Górniak-Kocikowska claim that 'computers do not know borders'?
A. Because the entire population of our Globe will be affected by computers.
B. Because computers cannot know anything, least of all a 'border'.
C. Because computers are just programmed that way.
D. Because computers are apolitical.
16. Volokh predicted that the Internet (infobahn) would give rise to a possible dark side, which included...
A. Extremists with access to the media
B. Falsehoods with an audience of millions
C. That people will choose to watch and read infotainment instead of the important news of the day
D. All the above
17. According to Dreyfus, "Old Library Culture" affords
A. playful surfing
B. access to everything
C. the authenticity of the text
D. allowing all possible associations
18. According to Dreyfus, "Hyperlinked Culture" affords
A. allowing all possible associations
B. careful selection
C. quality of editions
D. hierarchically organized
19. The almost religious conviction that "a widespread adoption of computers and communications systems along with easy access to electronic information will automatically produce a better world for human living" is what Winner called...
A. The Computer Revolution
B. Techno-romanticism
C. Technological Somnambulism
D. Mythinformation.
20. What is the best way to characterize the relationship between computers and values?
A. Computers are value-laden, being the visible manifestation of values, for good or bad; they are never neutral.
B. Computers are always morally or politically neutral; neither good nor bad in itself.
C. Computers are neither good nor bad; nor are they always morally or politically neutral.