Toward better Collaborative Problem-Solving in Programming Learning: Use of Pair Programming and Its Observation

Abstract

To realize better programming learning, we adopted "pair-programming" method to the introductory programming course of a university. Pair-programming is a programming method that two persons get involved with a single programming task using a single computer terminal, where only one person types the keyboard. Though there have been several researches on pair-programming learning practice and been reported its usefulness, only impressions were reported. Through the actual pair-programming practice, we could observe both successful case and failed case in solving the problem that arose in the course of completing the assigned task, and found that there seemed to be difference in utterance patterns between the successful case and the failed case.