Evaluating industry-inspired pair programming communication guidelines with undergraduate students.

Zarb, Mark; Hughes, Janet; Richards, John

Abstract

A set of industry-inspired pair programming guidelines have been derived from qualitative examinations of expert pairs in order to aid novice programmers with their intra-pair communication. This research describes the evaluation of these guidelines with a set of student pairs, and demonstrates how novice pairs who were exposed to the guidelines were more comfortable communicating within their pairs.

Citation

ZARB, M., HUGHES, J. and RICHARDS, J. 2014. Evaluating industry-inspired pair programming communication guidelines with undergraduate students. In Proceedings of the 45th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) technical symposium on computer science education (SIGCSE 2014), 5-8 March 2014, Atlanta, USA. New York: ACM [online], pages 361-366. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2538862.2538980

• Conference Name: 45th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) technical symposium on computer science education (SIGCSE 2014)
• Conference Location: Atlanta, USA
• Start Date: Mar 5, 2014
• End Date: Mar 8, 2014
• Acceptance Date: Sep 6, 2013
• Online Publication Date: Mar 5, 2014
• Publication Date: Mar 5, 2014
• Deposit Date: Mar 13, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 13, 2017
• Publisher: ACM Association for Computing Machinery
• Pages: 361-366
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2539962.2538980
• Keywords: Pair programming; Communication skills; Software engineering; Collaboration; Students
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2206