Title
On the Experience of Using Git-Hub in the Context of an Academic Course for the Development of Apps for Smart Devices.
Abstract
In this paper, we present the experience we gained in a Mobile Application Development course for Computer Science students at the University of Salerno. The course foresaw a project work conducted by students organized in teams. The goal of the project work was to design and develop Android-based applications for smart devices. The learning approach was based on collaboration (intra-team) and competition (extra-team). Students cooperated using GitHub as ComputerSupported-Collaborative-Learning tool for the implicit and explicit communication among team members and distributed revision control and management of software artifacts (e.g., source code and requirements models). All the developed applications underwent a final public competition prized by IT managers of national and international companies. IT managers expressed a positive judgment both on the students’ competition and on the developed applications for smart devices. Also, the students provided very good feedback on the competition and on the GitHub support.
Year
Venue
Field
2015
DMS
World Wide Web,Android (operating system),Software artifacts,Source code,Computer science,Revision control,Multimedia
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
3
0.42
References 
Authors
17
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rita Francese132139.98
Carmine Gravino272147.71
Michele Risi340340.98
Giuseppe Scanniello488377.10
Genoveffa Tortora51477151.59