Investigating pair-programming in a 2nd-year software development and design computer science course

  • Authors:
  • Emilia Mendes;Lubna Basil Al-Fakhri;Andrew Luxton-Reilly

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Auckland, New Zealand;University of Auckland, New Zealand;University of Auckland, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • ITiCSE '05 Proceedings of the 10th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper presents the results of a pair programming experiment conducted at the University of Auckland (NZ) during the first semester of 2004. It involved 300 second year Computer Science students attending a software design and construction course. We investigated similar issues to those reported in [26] and employed a subset of the questionnaires used by Laurie Williams et al. on the experiments presented in [26]. Our results support the use of pair programming as an effective programming/design learning technique.