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SOLUTIONS TO PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS AS LEARNING OBJECTS

ON A GITHUB REPOSITORY

Conference Paper · March 2022

DOI: 10.21125/inted.2022.2607

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 SOLUTIONS TO
PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS
AS LEARNING OBJECTS ON
A GITHUB REPOSITORY
Clara Marcela Miranda Sarmiento,
Rafael Guirado Clavijo,
Isabel María del Águila Cano,
José Rafael García Lázaro.
Supported by University of Almeria, for
its funding of the “Programming”
Project, within the call for the creation
of Lecturing Groups for Innovation and
Good Practices, for the Creation of
Lecturing Materials of the UAL.

Solution to programming problems as learning object on GitHub repository

 Introduction

An innovation project to define and solve a set of

PROGRAMMING problems.

Making them available to students and teachers in

GitHub

Industrial Engineering degrees

The problems are learning objects of small content

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 Project
Objective:
Make programming concepts more tangible, for ease of
understanding by students.
Through:
Simple and meaningful examples, of the main programming
concepts.
Tools:
GitHub repository
• Download
• Duplicate/bifurcate (fork)
• Available website of this platform

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 This innovation project seek to

For students and lecturers

A set of problems to be used
With small learning objects
In the subject of programming, in the basic training module,
in the first year of he degree courses of the Industrial Branch
at the UAL.
It covers specific competences such as:
Cross-cutting competences of
• Teamwork
• Basic knowledge of the profession
• Problem-solving skills

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 Programming subject

Eminently practical discipline

The group of problems is displayed and solved

The resulting a software

Deployed on the GitHub collaborative platform.

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 GitHub

Platform for creating open

projects of tools and
applications.
Characterized by its
collaborative functions to
improve the code.
Its expansion in the world is
certain, due to its
functionality and new
capabilities.

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 Existing repositories on GitHub

AIGORA Project, Polytechnic University of Madrid

(2021)
Programmes proposed and solved by students in the degree
of Industrial Engineering.
It facilities the assessment of students in large groups.
Our repository is unique on GitHub
Specialized in small programming problems in field of
Industrial Engineering (mechanical, electrical, electronic and
industrial chemistry).
Use of problems as a micro learning object
• Seeking to motivate students of these degrees who are starting
out in the discipline of programming.

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 Methodology
Based on experience in lecturing the subject (16th
years in industrial Lecturing Engineering and 11th
years in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical
Engineering, Industrial Electronics and Industrial
Chemistry)
We decided
Extend previous works on lecturing improvement based on
collaborative learning and problem-based learning as
elements of learning within the GitHub platform in the
repository.
ProblemsProgramming 2021.
https://materialesprogramacion.github.io/ProblemasProgramacion/

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 Methodology

There are different methodologies for the

development of learning objects, which define
different stages.
We have defined 5 stages
Planning, Analysis, Development, Validation and
Implementation.
The first three have been almost fully implemented yet
In the second half of this year it will be possible to carry out
the final implementation of the work done.

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 Planning Stage
Set the actions to be carried out, including the timing.
The innovation project is being developed over two
academic years:
Fisrt year
• Study of needs
• Technological decisions
• First prototypes
Second year
• Development will be complemented during the first half of this
year.
• Implementation and validation will be completed.
All this during the period in which the course is taken.

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 Analysis Stage
Key decision
Definition of the architecture, in which the learning objects
will be deployed.
Basic needs:
It Identified that the deployment is to be public Version
control platform, basic for the development of software
applications.
Support over solutions to be offered to the students.
Facilities the solution code to the proposed problems
It must be in a Version Control System open to software
developer and not only to students

Solution: GitHub

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 GitHub Features

Allows
Project management, code version control
Promotes
Collaborative work
Website
GitHub Pages
• Easy and free to create a multi-page website
• Host it as “github.io”

All of the above influenced our decision

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 Development

We are currently
in the process of
developing the
content.
The figure shows
the appearance
of the page
already
published

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 Page description

Simple and representative icons for each of the

programming languages used.
All C programs and pseudo code
There are implementations in
• JAVA

• C++

• Python

• Assembler

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 Validation and Implementation

General approach
Students duplicate/fork the repository.
Expand with their own contributions or alternatives solutions
to the problems.
Generating new shareable content.
Collaborative work, starting with working groups that
collectively build knowledge.
Mixed skills development
• Learning, personal an social development.
• Each team member is responsible for his or her own learning
as well as that of the other members of the team.

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 Task to be solved

Structure in such a way that the members of the

group need each other (positive interdependence).
These are distributed among the members of the group.
• Each student is responsible for his o her own work and the
work of the rest of his or her team partner.
Collaborative work teams, promotes
• Explanation
• Discussion
• Constructive conflict resolution
• Knowing and trusting or communicating with others.

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 Results
Structured problems according to the classification of:
Macro learning
Meso learning
Micro learning: At this level would be the problems of
Sample structure:
First steps
Structured Programming
Modular design
Data Structures
Searching and ordering algorithms
Files

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 Results

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 https://materialesprogr
amacion.github.io/Prob
lemasProgramacion/

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 Conclusions

With relative ease, attractive programming content

can be generated for university students.
A set of problems from the Industrial Engineering
domain have been deployed on the GitHub platform.
It can be used as a learning object and for collaborative work
in programming subjects in technological studies.
The interest shown by GitHub users, not directly related to
the subject.
The full apprenticeship model is planned to be
implemented next year.

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 Thanking you for your
attention

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