Problems encountered by novice pair programmers

ACM Journal on Educational Resources in Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Hanks, Brian ^a  

^a FORT LEWIS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer science education; CS1; Errors; Novice; Pair programming

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; PAIR PROGRAMMING;

PROBLEM SOLVING; STUDENTS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 42149107981     PISSN: 15314278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1316450.1316452     Document Type: Article

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