Introduction to Green Software: Impact on Curricula Development

Green software focuses on creating software solutions designed to reduce environmental effect. With the escalating global demand for energy-efficient technologies, this field emphasizes minimizing energy consumption and carbon emissions throughout software lifecycles, including execution, storage, and data transfer. Considering the importance of software in the increasing energy demands of data centers and IT infrastructures, it is essential to incorporate green software recommendations into computer science education. This lecture will examine the fundamental principles of green software, its significance in modern software engineering methodologies, and its potential to influence future educational approaches for equipping students to address sustainable software development difficulties.