Exploring Possibilities of Integrating Version Control Platforms in Higher Education Through GitHub Data Analysis
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Working in the software development industry in the modern world cannot be imagined without integration with some code versioning platform. In addition to allowing copies of the code to be kept, these platforms provide the ability to control changes that occur in the code itself, so at any time it can be determined which member of the development team made the change. The aim of this paper is to determine the possibilities of using code versioning platforms in education, i.e. conducting teaching in the field of software development at faculties, through the analysis of data generated on one of these platforms. In order to gain insight into the dynamics of software solution development, data analysis from the GitHub platform was performed using the GitHub REST API on the example of a public GitHub organization. The results of the analysis indicate that the data generated on these platforms can be used to better understand the learning process and monitor the dynamics of project work. In this way, lecturers have a better insight into the dynamics of the development of a given software solution. It is possible to follow iteratively how much and in what way each team member contributed to the solution through the analysis of different groups of data and thus better understand the state of individual activities, but also the state of the entire project.
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