AQA A-Level Computer Science consequences of computing and functional programming overview quiz quiz

The Data Protection Act

The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act

The Freedom of Information Act

The Computer Misuse Act

The Data Protection Act and UK GDPR

The Computer Misuse Act

The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act

RIPA

They are always one and the same thing, so any legal question is automatically an ethical one

A legal issue concerns what the law allows; an ethical issue concerns what is morally right

Ethical issues are always illegal, since anything immoral is necessarily against the law

Legal issues never have anything at all to do with computers or computing systems

The Computer Misuse Act, covering unauthorised access

The Data Protection Act, covering the handling of personal data

The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act

The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, known as RIPA

A function that freely changes global variables and other shared state outside of its own local scope

A function that takes no parameters at all and simply runs whenever it is called

A function that has been written in a low-level assembly or machine-code language

A function that always returns the same output for the same input and has no side effects

It can be passed as an argument, returned from a function and stored in a variable

It must always be the very first function that is defined in the program file

It can only ever be called one single time during the running of the program

It runs noticeably faster than all of the other ordinary functions defined in the program

It keeps only the elements of the list that match a given condition, discarding the rest

It applies a given function to every element of a list, returning a new list

It combines all of the elements of the list together into one single accumulated value

It sorts the elements of the list into ascending order

It applies a given function to every single element of the list in turn

It combines all of the elements of the list into one single value

It returns a new list of only the elements that satisfy a condition

It reverses the order of the elements in the list

It applies a function to each element separately and then returns a brand new list of all the results

It filters out the duplicate elements, leaving only the unique values from the list

It splits a list neatly in half into two smaller separate lists of elements

It combines all the elements of a list into a single value using a function and a starting value

Combining functions so the output of one becomes the input of the next

Fixing some of a function's arguments in advance to produce a new function

Calling a function recursively so that it repeatedly invokes itself until a base case

Defining a function inside a class so that it becomes a method of that class

Maximising the amount of data collected from users regardless of whether they consent

Acting ethically, following a code of conduct and protecting users' data

Ignoring the wider social and environmental impact of the systems that are built

Hiding a system's known limitations and weaknesses from the users who rely on it