Let's add patent law to that (Score 1)

Nothing wrong with a bit of good old indoctrination... Let's not forget to throw in some education on the stifling effect that software patents have on innovation. After students have submitted their programming course work it will be an interesting exercise for them to find out how many patents they have infringed upon.

To make it more fun, split the class in two groups and let the two groups find infringing patents in the works of the other group. All students in the group with the most infringements fail the course.