An Empirical Study E-Mentoring Activities In Github Education Community

In this study, we focus on online programming communities, and we aim at identifying and understanding e-mentoring activities carried out in this context. We performed a qualitative study on an education community from GitHub and identified a total of 29 different activities organized into 9 categories of activities. The results of our study provide insights into e-mentoring activities performed in GitHub Education community. We compare these results to our previous study performed on Stack Overflow and discuss the (dis)similarities between these two online programming communities.