Topics Covered on Monday, 2010-08-02

• Copyright
  • Assertion of Ownership
  • Acceptable form: Copyright (C) 2010, Raj Mathur <e-mail@address>
• Licence
  • Unilateral grant of permission to use by copyright holder
  • Types:
    1. EULA (End-User Licence Agreement), also known as "Shrink-wrap Licence": All proprietary software.
    2. Copyleft: GNU General Public Licence (GPL), Affero GPL; do anything but have to release source code with executables.
    3. Public Domain equivalent: MIT, BSD, MPL, etc; do anything with the code.
• Problem Solving steps
  • Understanding the problem and exception cases
  • Design a solution approach or strategy
  • Look for existing tools, libraries and programs that can help
  • Write the program
  • Compile the program
  • Run and test
  • Debug the solution