Everything about Pair programming

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Pair programmingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: GitHub Copilot AI pair programmer: Asset or Liability?Influential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Statistical ArbitrageThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Strengthening the case for pair programmingCited 496 times
5. Go sideways: Team programmingA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Extreme programming practicesA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Strengthening the case for pair programming

  L. Williams, R.R. Kessler, W. Cunningham · 2000 · IEEE Software · 496 citations

• The effectiveness of pair programming: A meta-analysis

  Jo E. Hannay, Tore Dybå, Erik Arisholm · 2009 · Information and Software Technology · 209 citations

• Pair-programming helps female computer science students

  Linda L. Werner, Brian Hanks, Charlie McDowell · 2004 · Journal on Educational Resources in Computing · 166 citations

• Pair programming in education: a literature review

  Brian Hanks, Sue Fitzgerald, Renée McCauley · 2011 · Computer Science Education · 144 citations

• The impact of AI-assisted pair programming on student motivation, programming anxiety, collaborative learning, and programming performance: a comparative study with traditional pair programming and individual approaches

  Guangrui Fan, Dandan Liu, Rui Zhang · 2025 · International Journal of STEM Education · 119 citations

• Improving the CS1 experience with pair programming

  Nachiappan Nagappan, Laurie Williams, Miriam Ferzli · 2003 · ACM SIGCSE Bulletin · 110 citations

• Effects of Personality on Pair Programming

  J.E. Hannay, E. Arisholm, H. Engvik · 2010 · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 98 citations

• A Meta-Analysis of Pair-Programming in Computer Programming Courses

  Karthikeyan Umapathy, Albert D. Ritzhaupt · 2017 · ACM Transactions on Computing Education · 92 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• GitHub Copilot AI pair programmer: Asset or Liability?

  Arghavan Moradi Dakhel, Vahid Majdinasab, Amin Nikanjam · 2023 · Journal of Systems and Software · 390 citations

• Multimodal learning analytics of collaborative patterns during pair programming in higher education

  Weiqi Xu, Yajuan Wu, Fan Ouyang · 2023 · International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education · 83 citations

• Designing PairBuddy—A Conversational Agent for Pair Programming

  Peter Robe, Sandeep Kaur Kuttal · 2022 · ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction · 45 citations

• Empirical research on pair programming in higher education: a literature review

  Anja Hawlitschek, Sarah Berndt, Sandra Schulz · 2022 · Computer Science Education · 40 citations

• Collaborative dialogue patterns of pair programming and their impact on programming self‐efficacy and coding performance

  Jinbo Tan, Lei Wu, Shanshan Ma · 2023 · British Journal of Educational Technology · 24 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Statistical ArbitrageAndrew Pole · 2007
• Z80 assembly language programmingLance A. Leventhal · 1979
• Mastering the Commodore 64Mark Greenshields · 1983
• 📕Megateaching and learningC. Van Nagel · 1985
• 📕Tiḳshoret ʻim ha-tat-mudaʻDafnah Reṭer · 1998
• The 8080/Z-80 assembly languageAlan R. Miller · 1981
• Mega-teaching and learningC. Van Nagel · 1993
• 📕Principles for programing learning materials in self-instructional devices for mentally-retarded childrenLawrence M Stolurow · 1966

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