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

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.

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        • Computer science education