Industry-inspired guidelines improve students' pair programming communication

  • Authors:
  • Mark Zarb;Janet Hughes;John Richards

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom;University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York, NY, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Novice pair programmers find communication within their pairs to be one of the greatest difficulties they face when starting to pair program. However, developers cannot pair program without a certain amount of communication. This research describes the development of an analytic coding scheme derived from the observation of the communication of expert pairs working in industry. Communication patterns identified from these expert pairs are being used to help novices learn to be more effective in their pair communication.