Program quality with pair programming in CS1

Brian Hanks; Charlie McDowell; David Draper; Milovan Krnjajic

doi:10.1145/1026487.1008043

Program quality with pair programming in CS1

Brian Hanks, Charlie McDowell, David Draper, Milovan Krnjajic

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Abstract

Prior research on pair programming has found that compared to students who work alone, students who pair have shown increased confidence in their work, greater success in CS1, and greater retention in computer-related majors. In these earlier studies, pairing and solo students were not given the same programming assignments. This paper reports on a study in which this factor was controlled by giving the same programming assignments to pairing and solo students. We found that pairing students were more likely to turn in working programs, and these programs correctly implemented more required features. Our findings were mixed when we looked at some standard complexity measures of programs. An unexpected but significant finding was that pairing students were more.likely to submit solutions to their programming assignments.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	176-180
Number of pages	5
Journal	SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)
Volume	36
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1026487.1008043
Publication status	Published - Sep 2004
Externally published	Yes
Event	ITiCSE 2004 - 9th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education - Leeds, United Kingdom Duration: 28 Jul 2004 → 30 Jul 2004

Keywords

Collaboration
CS1
Pair programming
Student perception

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