Mobile Agile Peer Assisted Learning

Student have difficulties in understanding programming concepts because they find learning programming and coding is difficult. Several approaches have been proposed to help students with the process of learning programming. In this paper we proposed Mobile Agile Peer Assisted Learning (M-APAL), a mobile system designed to assist students in managing and completing programming assignments/tasks given by lecturer. Besides that, it also helps students in learning introductory programming C++ with their peers. M-APAL is designed using both peer learning concept and agile methodology approach i.e SCRUM. It is implemented on Android mobile application. The language used is HTML5, CSS3, AngularJS, and JavaScript. The prototype of the application is successfully tested on first year students from the School of Computer Sciences and we found that the application helps the student to learn better with their peers using this platform.