The Use of Pair Programming to Support Introductory Programming Teaching: A Qualitative Study

Author(s):  
Thamires Alves Neves de Oliveira ◽  
Ayla Dantas Reboucas
2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlie McDowell ◽  
Linda Werner ◽  
Heather Bullock ◽  
Julian Fernald

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Balik ◽  
Nachiappan Nagappan ◽  
Laurie Williams ◽  
Julie Petlick ◽  
Carol Miller ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mewati Ayub ◽  
Oscar Karnalim ◽  
Risal Risal ◽  
Wenny Franciska Senjaya ◽  
Maresha Caroline Wijanto

Due to its high failure rate, Introductory Programming has become a main concern. One of the main issues is the incapability of slow-paced students to cope up with given programming materials. This paper proposes a learning technique which utilizes pair programming to help slow-paced students on Introductory Programming; each slow-paced student is paired with a fast-paced student and the latter is encouraged to teach the former as a part of  grading system. An evaluation regarding that technique has been conducted on three undergraduate classes from an Indonesian university for the second semester of 2018. According to the evaluation, the use of pair programming may help both slow-paced and fast-paced students. Nevertheless, it may not significantly affect individual academic performance. 


2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-229
Author(s):  
Mewati Ayub ◽  
Oscar Karnalim ◽  
Laurentius Risal ◽  
Maresha Caroline Wijanto

A study shows that pair programming can help slow-paced students in completing Introductory Programming assessment. This paper replicates the study on Data Structure course, in which the completion of the assessments does not only rely on logic but also theoretical knowledge. The aim is to check whether pair programming is still helpful on such new assessment characteristics. Three classes of Data Structure course with 14 teaching weeks and a total of 72 undergraduate students are considered in this study. Two of the classes are about Basic Data Structure while another one is the advanced one. Our evaluation shows that pair programming can help slow-paced students in both pair and individual academic performance. It also increases overall academic performance if the tasks are more logic oriented. Nevertheless, no benefits provided for fast-paced students paired to the slow-paced ones, even though all students appreciate the use of pair programming.


Author(s):  
Le Meizhao ◽  
Ye Ming ◽  
Song Xiaoming ◽  
Xu Jiazhang

“Hydropic degeneration” of the hepatocytes are often found in biopsy of the liver of some kinds of viral hepatitis. Light microscopic observation, compareted with the normal hepatocytes, they are enlarged, sometimes to a marked degree when the term “balloning” degeneration is used. Their cytoplasm rarefied, and show some clearness in the peripheral cytoplasm, so, it causes a hydropic appearance, the cytoplasm around the nuclei is granulated. Up to the present, many studies belive that main ultrastructural chenges of hydropic degeneration of the hepatocytes are results of the RER cristae dilatation with degranulation and disappearance of glycogen granules.The specimens of this study are fixed with the mixed fluid of the osmium acidpotassium of ferricyanide, Epon-812 embed. We have observed 21 cases of biopsy specimens with chronic severe hepatitis and severe chronic active hepatitis, and found that the clear fields in the cytoplasm actually are a accumulating place of massive glycogen. The granules around the nuclei are converging mitochondria, endoplasm reticulum and other organelles.


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