Applying Pair Programming Practice in the Improvement of Software Design Skills, in an Undergraduate Course

Hernan Quintana; Billy Grados

doi:10.1145/3341525.3393985

Applying Pair Programming Practice in the Improvement of Software Design Skills, in an Undergraduate Course

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Abstract

Teaching design patterns has proved to be a complicated topic in software engineering courses. Practitioners require mastering this technique in order to develop higher-quality programs. As part of the experiment, we used pair programming practice to solve this problem in an undergraduate classroom activity, aiming that finding the best pair configuration based on previous programming skills and character affinity, would lead us to better results. The experiment was divided into five rounds, increasing the complexity every each exercise. Afterward, we compared the score obtained by the students in the mid-term exam with last semester scores, resulting in an improvement of 0.37 points with the previous semester, which was 12.3% of the highest score (3 points).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ITiCSE 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	543-544
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450368742
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3341525.3393985
State	Published - 15 Jun 2020
Event	25th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2020 - Trondheim, Norway Duration: 15 Jun 2020 → 19 Jun 2020

Publication series

Name	Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE
ISSN (Print)	1942-647X

Conference

Conference	25th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2020
Country	Norway
City	Trondheim
Period	15/06/20 → 19/06/20

Keywords

design patterns
pair programming
software engineering education

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Quintana, H., & Grados, B. (2020). Applying Pair Programming Practice in the Improvement of Software Design Skills, in an Undergraduate Course. In ITiCSE 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (pp. 543-544). (Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3341525.3393985

Quintana, Hernan ; Grados, Billy. / Applying Pair Programming Practice in the Improvement of Software Design Skills, in an Undergraduate Course. ITiCSE 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. pp. 543-544 (Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE).

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Quintana H, Grados B. Applying Pair Programming Practice in the Improvement of Software Design Skills, in an Undergraduate Course. In ITiCSE 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. Association for Computing Machinery. 2020. p. 543-544. (Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE). https://doi.org/10.1145/3341525.3393985