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Program quality with pair programming in CS1

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Brian Hanks,

Charlie McDowell,

David Draper,

Milovan KrnjajicAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 36, Issue 3

Pages 176 - 180

https://doi.org/10.1145/1026487.1008043

Published: 28 June 2004 Publication History

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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.

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 36, Issue 3

September 2004

280 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1026487

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ITiCSE '04: Proceedings of the 9th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
June 2004
296 pages
ISBN:1581138369
DOI:10.1145/1007996
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University of Leeds, UK
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University of Leeds, UK
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Ramapo College of NJ

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