An Issue Driven Teaching Method for Collaborative Programming Experiment

GitHub is a prevailing open and collaborative development platform for open source software. Previous studies showed its social coding service, features and methodology have a wealth of benefits for various disciplines of education, but one of the most valuable experience for computer education is the issue driven collaborative programming practice. The paper proposed an issue driven collaborative programming experiment teaching method, which utilized the issue feature as a start point, executed all programing teaching activities with the rest social coding features provided by GitHub, and implemented an integrated performance assessment program to automatically generate experiment reports. We conducted two semesters of teaching experiments on two programming courses, Android and Java Web. The trial courses output well expected results and the proposed method played its role effectively in programming education.