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Pair programming improves student retention, confidence, and program quality
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Volume 49 ,  Issue 8  (August 2006) table of contents
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Pages: 90 - 95  
Year of Publication: 2006
ISSN:0001-0782
Authors
Charlie McDowell  University of California, Santa Cruz
Linda Werner  University of California, Santa Cruz
Heather E. Bullock  University of California, Santa Cruz
Julian Fernald  University of California, Santa Cruz
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

Pair programming produces more proficient, confident programmers---and may help increase female representation in the field.


REFERENCES

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Kent Beck, Extreme programming explained: embrace change, Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 1999
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Brian Hanks , Charlie McDowell , David Draper , Milovan Krnjajic, Program quality with pair programming in CS1, Proceedings of the 9th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education, June 28-30, 2004, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Charlie McDowell , Linda Werner , Heather Bullock , Julian Fernald, The effects of pair-programming on performance in an introductory programming course, Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education, February 27-March 03, 2002, Cincinnati, Kentucky
 
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Charlie McDowell , Linda Werner , Heather E. Bullock , Julian Fernald, The impact of pair programming on student performance, perception and persistence, Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering, May 03-10, 2003, Portland, Oregon
 
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Tech-Savvy Educating Girls in the New Computer Age. 2000. American Association of University Women Education Foundation; Executive summary at www.aauw.org/research/techexecsumm.cfm.
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Linda L. Werner , Brian Hanks , Charlie McDowell, Pair-programming helps female computer science students, Journal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC), v.4 n.1, p.4-es, March 2004  [doi>10.1145/1060071.1060075]
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Laurie A. Williams , Robert R. Kessler, All I really need to know about pair programming I learned in kindergarten, Communications of the ACM, v.43 n.5, p.108-114, May 2000  [doi>10.1145/332833.332848]
 
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Laurie Williams , Bob Kessler, The Effects of "Pair-Pressure" and "Pair-Learning" on Software Engineering Education, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training, p.59, March 06-08, 2000
 
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Laurie Williams , Robert R. Kessler , Ward Cunningham , Ron Jeffries, Strengthening the Case for Pair Programming, IEEE Software, v.17 n.4, p.19-25, July 2000  [doi>10.1109/52.854064]
 
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Laurie Williams , Charlie McDowell , Nachiappan Nagappan , Julian Fernald , Linda Werner, Building Pair Programming Knowledge through a Family of Experiments, Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, p.143, September 30-October 01, 2003
 
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Women, Minorities and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering. NSF. 2004; www.nsf.gov/statistics/women.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
      K.3.2 Computer and Information Science Education

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces


General Terms:
Experimentation, Human Factors


REVIEWS

"Silvia Teresita Acuña : Reviewer"

There is abundant literature on experiences with extreme programming (XP) processes supporting XP's effectiveness, albeit applying a selected subset rather than all of its principles (see, for example, http://www.xpuniverse.com). This paper is ano  more...


"Ann E. Fleury : Reviewer"

This carefully designed and controlled study investigated the effects of pair programming on hundreds of students taking an introductory programming course. A significantly higher percentage of the students who had paired took the next programming  more...

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Linda Werner: colleagues
Heather E. Bullock: colleagues
Julian Fernald: colleagues

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