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CSEE
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Increased Retention of Early Computer Science and Software Engineering Students Using Pair Programming
An important problem faced by many Computer Science and Software Engineering programs is declining enrollment. In an effort to reverse that trend at Mississippi State University, ...
Jeffrey C. Carver, Lisa Henderson, Lulu He, Julia ...
ICSE
2005
IEEE-ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Towards increasing the compatibility of student pair programmers
As pair programming is used widely in software engineering education, instructors may wish to proactively form pairs to increase the likelihood of compatible pairs. A study involv...
Neha Katira, Laurie A. Williams, Jason Osborne
ICSE
2003
IEEE-ACM
14 years 4 months ago
The Impact of Pair Programming on Student Performance, Perception and Persistence
This study examined the effectiveness of pair programming in four lecture sections of a large introductory programming course. We were particularly interested in assessing how the...
Charlie McDowell, Linda L. Werner, Heather E. Bull...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 4 months ago
Test-driven learning in early programming courses
Coercing new programmers to adopt disciplined development practices such as thorough unit testing is a challenging endeavor. Test-driven development (TDD) has been proposed as a s...
David Janzen, Hossein Saiedian
ISESE
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Building Pair Programming Knowledge through a Family of Experiments
Pair programming is a practice in which two programmers work collaboratively at one computer on the same design, algorithm, code, or test. Pair programming is becoming increasingl...
Laurie A. Williams, Charlie McDowell, Nachiappan N...