First year students' impressions of pair programming in CS1

Third International Computing Education Research Workshop, ICER'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 73-86

  Simon, Beth ^a   Hanks, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FORT LEWIS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

CS1; Debugging; Interview; Novice; Pair programming; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

AGILE DEVELOPMENT; PAIR PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DISTANCE EDUCATION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; STUDENTS;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 38849148954     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1288580.1288591     Document Type: Conference Paper

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