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Table 7.9 Homework about mentoring methodology for software projects
Homework—Mentoring methodology for software projects
The following paper presents a mentoring methodology for high school computer science
pupils who develop a software project
Meerbaum-Salant, O. and Hazzan, O. ( 2010 ). An agile constructionist mentoring methodology
for software projects in the high school, ACM Transactions on Computing Education—TOCE
9(4)
Read the paper and analyze the mentoring methodology it presents
Address the following questions:
What are the advantages of the mentoring methodology? What are its disadvantages?
Can you suggest improvements to the mentoring methodology presented in the paper?
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