A replicated experiment of pair-programming in a 2nd-year software development and design computer science course

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

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

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 11th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper presents the results of a replicated pair programming experiment conducted at the University of Auckland (NZ) during the first semester of 2005. It involved 190 second year Computer Science students attending a software design and construction course. We replicated the experiment described in [18], investigating similar issues to those reported in [32] and employing a subset of the questionnaires used in [32]. Our results confirm the use of pair programming as an effective programming/design learning technique.