The impact of using pair programming: a case study. (1st January 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Al-Ramahi, Mohammad; Alazzam, Iyad; Alsmadi, Izzat
• Is Part Of: International journal of teaching and case studies. Volume 4:Number 4(2013)
• Page Start: 313
• Page End: 329
• Publication Date: 2013-01-01
• Subjects: pair programming -- computer education -- programming -- software development; Teaching -- Periodicals; 371.10205
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1749-9151

Abstract

Several studies tried to evaluate the impact of using pair programming in computer educational courses or in actual programming projects in the industry. We studied the effect of pair programming practice on the performance of students who do not like and face problems with understanding programming courses through conducting a case study of several programming tasks in third-level practical programming course using individual and pair programming options. We tried to evaluate using pairs of students where one has very good programming skills unlike the other pair who suffers problems in programming. We also conducted a comparison study with papers in the area of pair programming to compare the different approaches that are used in evaluating pair programming practices. In computer programming education, pair programming can be used as part of the education, helping students learn from each other especially those who do not like and face obstacles in learning programming.