Eleven Guidelines for Implementing Pair Programming in the Classroom
Utilizing pair programming in the classroom requires specific classroom management techniques. We have created eleven guidelines for successfully implementing pair programming in the classroom. These guidelines are based on pair programming experiences spanning seven years and over one thousand students at North Carolina State University. In Fall 2007, pair programming was adopted in the undergraduate human-computer interaction (HCI) course at Virginia Tech. We present the pair programming guidelines in the context of the HCI course, discuss how the guidelines were implemented, and evaluate the general applicability and sufficiency of the guidelines.
We will present the guidelines and our experience with the guidelines. We can ask for audience feedback about the guidelines. If time is available, we can take 90 minutes and can have an audience participation workshop on the guidelines. We include a 11-page paper of the guidelines and the experiences at Virginia Tech with the guidelines. Our aim is that this paper would appear in the conference proceedings.