Have you ever wanted to teach a room full of students or your colleagues? It turns out that it is difficult to setup the infrastructure needed to deliver source code and documentation and then assess submissions! Suitable for full-time educators and industrialists who instruct their colleagues, this talk explains how you can teach programming using GitHub Classroom, Travis CI, and Python.
Real-world software engineering is collaborative, commonly involving the use of Git, GitHub, and continuous integration with Travis CI. Suitable for both full-time educators and members of industry who educate their peers, this presentation will explain how to use these technologies and platforms to teach interdisciplinary and introductory courses in computer programming and software engineering.
The presentation will first show how to create a GitHub organization connected to a GitHub Classroom with unlimited private repositories that contain instructor solutions and starter kits and assignment submissions from both individual and team-based programming assignments. The talk will next explain how to connect GitHub repositories to continuous integration servers hosted by Travis CI, thus supporting the cloud-based execution of tests and checks.
The presentation will subsequently introduce a Python program that supports the local and cloud-based checking of a student's source code and technical writing for a programming project. Ultimately, people who attend this talk will learn more about how to use open-source software and the Python programming language to effectively deliver instructional materials and assess assignment submissions.