Investigating the effective implementation of pair programming: An empirical investigation

SIGCSE'11 - Proceedings of the 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 655-660

  Radermacher, Alex ^a   Walia, Gursimran S ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Pair programming

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INTRODUCTORY COMPUTER SCIENCE; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING COURSE; LEARNING EFFECTIVENESS; NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITIES; PAIR-PROGRAMMING; PAIRING METHOD; PROGRAMMING TASKS; PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUE;

EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 79954448834     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1953163.1953346     Document Type: Conference Paper

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